Ujjain: Intense pressure from the media and a nationwide public outcry may have made the Ujjain police book Professor Sabharwal's alleged killers under a murder charge, but a witness in the case is spending sleepless nights.
Komal Singh Sengar was an eyewitness to the manhandling of Professor Sabharwal during a college election, resulting in his death.
A peon in the Government Madhav College, Senger has been given police protection, after he claimed that he was being "pressurised" to withdraw his statement to the police.
It was on the basis of Senger's statement to the police that the FIR was filed against the two ABVP leaders Shashiranjan Akela and Vimal Tomar.
The two men were shown by TV channels threatening another professor M L Nath in connection with a cancelled students' union polls on August 26.
"I can see my death before my eyes," Sengar said. "I have been told not to reveal anything to anybody. Otherwise my family and I will be killed," Sengar said.
He claimed that he was also offered money to marry off his daughters, (in return for retracting his statement).
"I have been hiding here and there," he said. Akela and Tomar, president and secretary respectively of the state unit of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, were yesterday arrested and later remanded to police custody till September 2 by a judicial magistrate's court.
They had surrendered to police in connection with the alleged manhandling of professor Nath and formally arrested by the CID for the murder of H S Sabharwal, who died shortly after the attack by students.
Narrating the sequence of events, Sengar claimed that a group of 15-20 people, including Tomar came up to the gate of the college and thrashed Sabharwal at the behest of Akela.
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