Himachal HC grants bail to ASI Pankaj Sharma in evidence tampering case

Imagine a police officer, ASI Pankaj Sharma, was given a pen drive found with a man named Vimal Negi, who had sadly passed away.

Vimal was an engineer.

The police thought ASI Sharma messed with the pen drive's information instead of giving it straight to investigators.

So, ASI Sharma was arrested.

He asked the big court, the Himachal Pradesh High Court, for permission to be free while the investigation continued.

The investigators, called the CBI, said he shouldn't be let go because they still needed to ask him questions.

But ASI Sharma's lawyer said he had already told them everything.

The judge decided to let ASI Sharma go free for now by giving him bail, meaning he doesn't have to stay in jail while the case is ongoing.