Days after withdrawing all his vakalatnamas, infamous stockbroker of Vakola, Pintu Sharma appeared at the Vasai sessions court on Monday and put forth his arguments in the alleged murder of Ganesh Kolhatkar to defend himself. While in court he defended himself on a number of grounds and said that an incomplete and manipulative DNA report had been given to him, later he told mid-day that he was being projected as a ‘psycho killer’ and being implicated in a false case.

The Arnala Coastal police had arrested Sharma in January 2019 in connection with the murder of Kolhatkar, who was allegedly hacked into pieces, which were then flushed down the toilet of a flat rented by the accused in Virar. Later, Sharma allegedly threw the bones from Kolhatkar’s body into the Bhayandar creek, and the probe team could never recover them.