TimesOfIndia 23 Dec,2011
AHMEDABAD: Superintendent of police Surendranagar, Raghavendra Vatsa, who is probing the RTI activist Amit Jethava murder case, has sought permission to conduct narco analysis on six arrested accused. Vatsa has filed an application in the sessions court in this connection.
Vatsa said that the test is necessary to ascertain whether the member of parliament, Dinu Solanki, is connected to the murder case. The slain activist's father Bhikha Jethava had accused Solanki of masterminding his son's murder.
Amit was shot on July 20, 2010, at 8.30 pm outside the Gujarat high court by two persons. A complaint was later lodged with the Sola police. Investigation in the case was later handed over to crime branch and six persons were arrested including two shooters. Solanki's nephew Shiva Solanki was also among those arrested.
Not convinced by the police investigation, Bhikha moved the Gujarat high court, alleging that Ahmedabad crime branch was trying to shield the MP. On November 12, HC handed over the probe to Surendranagar SP. Vatsa had sought police remand for all the six accused on December 7. However, the remand application was rejected. Vatsa then questioned the accused inside the Sabarmati Central Jail.
After this session, Vatsa told the court that the accused were hiding more than they were ready to reveal. To unearth the truth, he felt, that the accused should be subjected to forensic interrogation through narco and lie-detection tests.
Vatsa cited six reasons for conducting the narco test. He told the court that he had grilled all the accused between December 12 and 14. "When I asked them about Solanki, all the accused gave unsatisfactory replies and seemed to be hiding much," he said . Two other accused - Bahadur Vader and Sailesh Pandya - were questioned about the weapon used to shoot Amit. Vatsa told the court that both gave contradictory statements.
In a similar manner, when an accused Pachan Desai was asked about the car used in the murder, he too gave contradictory statement about the ownership of the vehicle.
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