Chandigarh, April 28 -- In the resumed hearing of the Sippy Sidhu murder case before the CBI court on Tuesday, a prosecution witness testified that he had received obscene messages from someone likely impersonating the prime accused, Kalyani Singh, uptill a month before the murder in September 2015 .

The witness, Sachin Bhatia, deposed that he had come in contact with accused Kalyani Singh through his wife, Priyanka Dhawan, in 2006, when both women were students at Home Science College, Sector 10, Chandigarh.

The court allowed Kalyani’s plea to have Bhatia’s statement recorded as in-camera proceedings (conducted in private, excluding the public and media). This was the first hearing in the sensational murder trial in three months since ...