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| Vikas Sharma is office assistant in St Paul School Palampur. He lives in Maiyara Tehshsil Palampur Distt Kangra of Himachal Pradesh. He is very smart, dedicated person. He has a very clear heart. He has two children and one wife. Wife's name is Pretty and children naes are Shivesh and Saanchi. | |||
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| {{Use Indian English|date=September 2017}} | |||
| {{Infobox criminal | |||
| | name = Siddharth Vashisht | |||
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| | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|df=yes|1977}} | |||
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| | alias = Manu Sharma | |||
| | charge = Murder | |||
| | motive = Refusal to be served alcohol | |||
| | conviction = 18 December 2006 | |||
| | conviction_penalty = Life imprisonment | |||
| | conviction_status = Convicted | |||
| | occupation = Pub owner | |||
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| | parents = ] (father)<br/>Shakti Rani Sharma (mother) | |||
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| '''Siddharth Vashisht''' (born 1977), better known as '''Manu Sharma''', is a convicted murderer, serving ] for the 1999 murder of model ]. Sharma is the son of ] leader ]. | |||
| Manu Sharma is one of several high-profile criminals brought to trial in India through media activism. Along with that of some other murderers, his conviction is viewed as demonstrating the impact of the general public in correcting imbalances in the Indian legal process.<ref>{{cite newspaper |title= Courts see through flip-flops of witnesses – BMW case: Sanjeev Nanda found guilty |newspaper= ] |url= http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=12dd04bf-0796-4b52-bf3d-d4a291ebd120&ParentID=63d4699b-619d-49a4-9c0a-4adc214bf63c&&Headline=Courts+see+through+flip-flops+of+witnesses |archive-url= https://archive.is/20130125114455/http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=12dd04bf-0796-4b52-bf3d-d4a291ebd120&ParentID=63d4699b-619d-49a4-9c0a-4adc214bf63c&&Headline=Courts+see+through+flip-flops+of+witnesses |dead-url= yes |archive-date= 25 January 2013 |date= 10 September 2008 |accessdate= 13 September 2008 }}</ref> | |||
| ==Personal life== | |||
| Sharma was born in 1977 to Venod Sharma and Shakti Rani Sharma. His father was a member of parliament in the ] in the 1990s, elected on an ] ticket. He was later elected to the Haryana legislature.<ref name="gulf">{{cite newspaper|url=http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=239728&version=1&template_id=40&parent_id=22|title=Homicide conviction punctures legal armour of India’s elite|date=5 September 2008|newspaper=]|accessdate=18 September 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607192411/http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=239728&version=1&template_id=40&parent_id=22|archivedate=7 June 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> His uncle is the son-in-law of former ], ].<ref name="hindu1">{{cite newspaper|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/12/19/stories/2006121911590100.htm|title=Manu Sharma, Vikas Yadav and Gill convicted in Jessica Lal murder case |date=19 December 2006 |newspaper=]|accessdate=18 September 2008}}</ref> The family owns two sugar mills, at ] in ], and Patran in ].<ref name="rediff1">{{cite news|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/dec/19jessica.htm|title=It's all silent at Manu Sharma's house |date=19 December 2006|publisher=]|accessdate=18 September 2008}}</ref> | |||
| Sharma suffers from ] and for this reason was favoured during his childhood.<ref name="indiatoday">{{cite news|url=http://www.india-today.com/itoday/31051999/crime.html|title=Wanton Ways|date=30 May 1999|publisher=]|accessdate=18 September 2008}}</ref> He was educated at the elite Mayo College in ]. He then completed two years of undergraduate courses in Commerce at a college in ].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19990506/ige06079.html|title=Manu Sharma was a regular visitor at Qutab Colonnade|date=6 May 1999|publisher=]|accessdate=18 September 2008}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Sharma initially thought of completing an ], but he joined the family business instead. His father then directed him to manage the family mill at Bhadson in ].<ref name=indiatoday /> | |||
| Since the late 1990s, Sharma also built up the Piccadilly hotel chain<ref name="tehelka">{{cite news|url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main16.asp?filename=Ne030406Manu_Not.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060318223715/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main16.asp?filename=Ne030406Manu_Not.asp|dead-url=yes|archive-date=18 March 2006|title=Manu? Not at home. Probably at his disco-bar|date=4 March 2006|publisher=Tehelka|accessdate=18 September 2008}}</ref> including ''Blue Ice'' in ] (opened in 2002), and a theatre.<ref name="ex3">{{cite news|url=http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=63389|title=After bail, it's Blue Ice for Manu Sharma|date=24 February 2006|publisher=]|accessdate=18 September 2008}}</ref> | |||
| On 22 April 2015, Sharma married his friend in a low-profile ceremony at his residence in Chandigarh. It is said that they knew each other for ten years and the marriage was delayed due to conviction.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Varinder Bhatia|title=Jessica Lall murder convict Manu Sharma weds Mumbai woman|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/473942/jessica-lal-killer-manu-sharma.html|accessdate=27 April 2015|work=]|date=26 April 2015}}</ref> | |||
| ==Murder and conviction== | |||
| {{Main|Murder of Jessica Lal}} | |||
| In the late 1990s, Sharma was known to be a regular party-goer in ].<ref>{{cite news|publisher=India Express|url=http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=40618|date=11 January 2003|accessdate=18 August 2008}}{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> On 29 April 1999, he was present at a party where an unlicensed bar was operating. Jessica Lal refused to serve him, despite being offered 1000 rupees, and Sharma then fired a .22 pistol and killed her.<ref name=IT>{{cite news |url=http://www.india-today.com/itoday/17051999/cover.html |title=Murder of a Model] |publisher=] |date=17 May 1999}}</ref><ref name=rediffaug /> Sharma was arrested and charged with murder, destruction of evidence and other offences.<ref name=rediffaug>{{cite news |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/aug/03jess.htm |title=Manu Sharma, Vikas Yadav charged with Jessica Lal's murder] |publisher=] |date=3 August 1999}}</ref> During the trial, 32 witnesses ]. Seven years after the case was opened, on 21 February 2006, Sharma and eight others of the twelve accused were acquitted. The trial judge commented after the outcome that {{quote|The court has acquitted them because the Delhi police failed to sustain the grounds on which they had built up their case. The police failed to recover the weapon which was used to fire at Jessica Lal as well as prove their theory that the two cartridges, emptied shells of which were recovered from the spot, were fired from one weapon.<ref name=Hindu20060222>{{cite newspaper |url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/22/stories/2006022214170100.htm |title=All accused acquitted in Jessica Lal murder case |newspaper=The Hindu |date=22 February 2006}}</ref>}} | |||
| After his acquittal by the trial court, Sharma was ostracised, with SMS campaigns being sent out to boycott all establishments that the Sharmas had owned.<ref name="shunned">{{cite newspaper|url= http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1436468.cms |title= Manu Sharma – acquitted, but shunned |date=3 March 2006|newspaper=]|accessdate=18 September 2008}}</ref> The acquittal led to widespread public outcry. In March 2006, the case was re-admitted in the ] where it was tried on a fast-track basis. Among the evidence re-introduced were two spent cartridges recovered from Sharma's car, the ballistic analysis for one of which showed it as matching the bullet recovered from Lal's skull.<ref>{{cite news |title= Getting Away With Murder: Jessica case: Court comes down hard on witnesses |first= Tanu |last= Sharma |publisher= ] |url= http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=203723 |date= 4 October 2006 |accessdate= 15 September 2008 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> This evidence had been overlooked by the trial court. On 18 December 2006, The High Court ruled Sharma guilty of murdering Jessica Lal and sentenced him to life imprisonment. After conviction, he was imprisoned in the ]. Sharma appealed to the ] through his counsel ]. However, the Court upheld his sentence of life imprisonment on 19 April 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=570289|archive-url=https://archive.is/20120911022825/http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=570289|dead-url=yes|archive-date=11 September 2012|title=Jessica murder case: SC refuses bail to Manu Sharma|date=12 May 2008|publisher=Outlook India|accessdate=18 September 2008}}</ref> | |||
| ==Current status== | |||
| Sharma was incarcerated in the Tihar Jail along with the co-accused ] and Amardeep Singh Gill, who had been sentenced for destroying evidence.<ref> | |||
| {{cite news |title=Manu wants mattress, heater; sorry, says jail |url=http://www.andhracafe.com/index.php?m=show&id=15687 |date=20 December 2006 |accessdate=18 September 2008}}</ref> Along with another high-profile convict, ], Sharma is involved in helping other prisoners draft legal appeals.<ref>{{cite newspaper |title=Relaxed Manu helps inmates in Tihar | newspaper=] |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Relaxed_Manu_helps_inmates_in_Tihar/articleshow/940024.cms |date=27 December 2006 |accessdate=18 September 2008}}</ref> | |||
| On 24 September 2009 Delhi Lieutenant Governor granted Sharma 30-day parole from jail, on the grounds that he needed to attend to his ailing mother and attend the last rites of his grandmother<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/paroles-ins-and-outs-to-perform-ritual-for/539887/ |title=Parole’s ins and outs: to perform ritual for late grandmother, attend to aged mother |publisher=Indian Express |date=11 November 2009 |accessdate=14 November 2011}}</ref> and also look after the family business which was suffering in his absence.<ref>{{cite newspaper |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-09-25/delhi/28078425_1_manu-sharma-venod-sharma-parole |title=Manu Sharma out on 30 day parole |newspaper=Time of India}}</ref> But, the basis for the parole was proved unfounded as Sharma's grandmother had died in 2008. During the second extension of the parole for another 30 days, Sharma was seen partying in a discothèque in Delhi. His mother, whose illness was also the basis for the parole, was seen at a media briefing promoting a ladies cricket tournament at his family-run hotel in Chandigarh.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/jessica-case-hc-to-hear-manus-parole-plea/202038-3.html |title=Jessica case: HC to hear Manu Sharma's parole plea |publisher=IBN |date=14 November 2011 |accessdate=14 November 2011}}</ref> It was also later revealed that the parole was granted despite an objection from the Delhi police.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2009-11-12/news/27644474_1_manu-sharma-model-jessica-lall-siddharth-vashisht | title=Manu got parole despite Delhi police objection | work=] | date=12 November 2009 | accessdate=24 February 2012}}</ref> | |||
| In November 2009, Chief Minister ] came under criticism for granting parole to Sharma after media reports of him visiting night clubs in Delhi emerged. During the parole he got involved in a brawl with the son of police commissioner of Delhi.<ref>{{cite newspaper |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-11-10/delhi/28102367_1_manu-sharma-jessica-lall-parole|title=Manu Sharma partying hard, yet CM defends parole|date=10 November 2009|newspaper=Times of India|accessdate=10 November 2009}}</ref> After a public uproar that he violated parole norms, the Delhi Government had to cancel his parole<ref>{{cite news | url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2009-11-10/news/28447078_1_manu-sharma-parole-norms-parole-decision | title=Delhi Govt asks police to probe if Manu violated parole norms | work=] | date=10 November 2009 | accessdate=24 February 2012}}</ref> and on 10 November 2009, Sharma returned to Tihar Jail after violation of his parole was confirmed.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Manu-Sharma-granted-5-day-parole/Article1-769854.aspx | archive-url=https://archive.is/20130125075256/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Manu-Sharma-granted-5-day-parole/Article1-769854.aspx | dead-url=yes | archive-date=25 January 2013 | title=Paroled, reveller Manu Sharma to be out again | work=] | date=16 November 2011 | accessdate=24 February 2012 }}</ref> | |||
| While imprisoned Sharma established the Siddhartha Vashishta Charitable Trust, which is managed by his mother and brother. According to '']'', the trust is intended to assist causes such as" child education, cancer awareness, rehabilitation of prisoners etc." By July 2011 it had provided assistance to at least 130 children of prison inmates.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/manu-sharmas-trust-showcases-tihar-art-he/814950/ |title=Manu Sharma’s trust showcases Tihar art, he talks of misery in jail |date=9 July 2011 |publisher=Indian Express |accessdate=30 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite newspaper |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-21/people/30183745_1_aiims-life-imprisonment-child-education |newspaper=Times of India |title=Manu Sharma’s trust saves a 3-year-old |first=Suruchi |last=Sharma |date=21 September 2011 |accessdate=30 November 2011}}</ref> | |||
| Sharma was granted five days' parole in November 2011 in order to attend the wedding of his younger brother.<ref>{{cite newspaper |url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/city/20296-police-oppose-manu-sharmas-parole-plea.html |title=Police oppose Manu Sharma's parole plea |newspaper=The Pioneer |date=14 November 2011 |accessdate=14 November 2011}}</ref> The parole restricted his movements to the cities of Karnal, Chandigarh and Ambala and prevented him from visiting any night club.<ref>{{cite newspaper |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-11-16/india/30405164_1_30-day-parole-manu-sharma-parole-application |title=Manu Sharma granted parole for five days |newspaper=Times of India |date=16 November 2011 |accessdate=17 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite newspaper |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2632562.ece |title=Delhi HC grants parole to Manu Sharma, serving life for Jessica Lal killing |newspaper=The Hindu |date=16 November 2011 |accessdate=17 November 2011}}</ref> | |||
| Sharma was granted nine days parole in December 2013<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/jessica-lal-murder-case-manu-sharma-gets-nineday-parole/article5473878.ece|title=Jessica Lal murder case: Manu Sharma gets nine-day parole|date=18 December 2013|work=]|accessdate=19 December 2013}}</ref> and 30 days on 26 December 2014 to appear for his master's degree exams.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jessica Lall murder case: Manu Sharma gets 30 days parole|url=http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Jessica-Lall-murder-case-Manu-Sharma-gets-30-days-parole/articleshow/45651665.cms|accessdate=27 December 2014|work=]}}</ref> | |||
| ==See also== | |||
| *'']'', a 2011 Indian political crime thriller film based on the ] case | |||
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| {{wikinews|New Delhi: Video shows witnesses in the Jessica Lall murder case being bribed}} | |||
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Vikas Sharma is office assistant in St Paul School Palampur. He lives in Maiyara Tehshsil Palampur Distt Kangra of Himachal Pradesh. He is very smart, dedicated person. He has a very clear heart. He has two children and one wife. Wife's name is Pretty and children naes are Shivesh and Saanchi.