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Tests on Sadhvi may prove blank

Tests on Sadhvi may prove blank

Author: Vaidehi Sachin
Publication: Afternoon
Date: November 1, 2008

There is a chance that the extensive efforts of the Mumbai Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) may amount to nought.
If sources are to be believed, the tests have drawn a blank.

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur's family is now considering approaching the State. Human Rights Commission to demand enquiry against the ATS. It is felt that the ATS has been rather hasty, and-has been -picking up people on mere suspicion, rather than established evidence. There is also a likelihood that some of the statements already recorded have been acquired under duress or even torture while she-was in police custody. There was no circumstantial evidence available to implicate her in the case.

Yesterday, the ATS took Sadhvi, who is currently the main accused in the Malegaon blast case, to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Santa Cruz, where she was made to undergo brain-mapping, polygraph and lie detector tests; ATS officer Hemant Karkare told this paper.

The Nashik Court had permitted Mumbai ATS to conduct these psychological tests on the sadhvi, because she kept changing her statements frequently during interrogations.

Meanwhile, Pradnya's brother-in-law Bhagwan Jha has alleged that ATS officials had physically tortured her and he is planning to approach the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) in this regard: Jha further said; "we will· first move the Human Rights Commission and then then Bombay High Court demanding an inquiry to be set-up in this matter as Pradnya is being falsely implicated in this case."

Pragya, a former ABVP office-bearer, was picked up by the ATS from Surat in connection with the Malegaon blast on September 29.

A senior political source said, "This blast case is being used by the Congress mainly for election purposes, since elections are to be held in the north Indian states next month. The issue will be used to embarrass the BJP. The BJP has always remained firm on its stand for the non-appeasement of minorities and has opted for issues concerning development."


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