Alka Dhupkar and Divyesh Singh, journalists with the Mumbai mirror have today reported the CBI’s ‘lie’ in misinforming the Court that it is actually awaiting Scotland Yard Reports. The agency investigating the murders of the rationalists has been maintaining that it is awaiting reports from UK when it emerges that they are awaiting permission to send it in the first place
The Central Bureau of In vestigation (CBI), which is probing the murder cases of Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and MM Kalburgi, has so far been maintaining in court that they are awaiting ballistic reports from New Scotland Yard in England to take the case further. As it turns out, they are awaiting permission to send the samples in the first place.
The newspaper reports that, in April 2016, the CBI asked permission from UK authorities to send samples of recovered cartridges, bullets, weapons and lead found on the bodies of murdered rationalists, Dabholkar, Pansare and Kalburgi to British forensic scientists for ballistic analysis as reports from Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Kalina and FSL, Bengaluru were contradictory.
On April 29, 2016, CBI filed an application before the Judicial Magistrate Court, Pune seeking permission to send the material objects of Dabholkar murder case to forensic scientists of New Scotland Yard at United Kingdom. In the application, CBI said that, “In view of discrepancies between the ballistic opinion of FSL Bengaluru and FSL Kalina (Mumbai), a second forensic (ballistic) opinion from forensic science lab of New Scotland Yard police at United Kingdom (UK) is required on the material objects of Dr Dabholkar murder case and Govind Pansare murder case.“
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