Crime scene recreation points to push angle in restaurateur’s death | Lucknow News

Lucknow: A three-hour crime scene reconstruction conducted by Lucknow Police at Avadh Green Apartment in Hazratganj on Friday has strengthened suspicions that 28-year-old restaurateur Shiva Sharma may have been pushed from the fourth floor before his death on Oct 9.The exercise was carried out by police, forensic experts and a state medico-legal team to examine three possible scenarios leading to Sharma’s fall: whether he was pushed, whether he jumped, or whether he accidentally slipped from the balcony of the flat where he lived with social media influencer Shraddha Dubey.Investigators used a dummy weighing approximately the same as Sharma to recreate the fall under different circumstances. According to sources associated with the probe, the simulated “push” scenario produced a trajectory and landing point that closely matched the location where Sharma’s body was found. In comparison, simulations based on suicide and accidental fall theories reportedly resulted in landing points significantly different from the actual recovery spot.Senior police officials, however, cautioned against drawing definitive conclusions from the exercise alone. DCP Central Arpit Vijayvargiya said the reconstruction was conducted primarily to test allegations made by Sharma’s mother, Ranjana Sharma, who has accused Dubey of murdering her son. He said the findings would serve only as corroborative evidence and would be assessed alongside other material collected during the investigation.ACP Hazratganj Abhishek Kumar Pandey said experts examined the building’s height, balcony structure, possible impact points and fall trajectories to determine which version best aligns with available evidence.Investigators are also analysing autopsy findings that reportedly show nearly 90% of Sharma’s injuries were on the posterior side of his body. The injury pattern, along with viscera reports, internal injuries, witness statements and forensic evidence, will be compared with the reconstruction results.Sharma died after falling from the apartment around 6:45 pm on Oct 9. Police later registered a murder case against Shraddha Dubey, her sister Rashmi Dubey and others. The accused have maintained that Sharma jumped voluntarily.