CBI carries out narco, lie-detection tests on Kotkhai suspects

NEWDELHI:The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has carried out narco-analysis and lie detector tests on the suspects arrested in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a minor girl in the Kotkhai area of Shimla district.

The 16-year-old had gone missing after school hours on July 4 from Haliala forest in Kotkhai. Her naked body was found in the forest on July 6 and the post-mortem report confirmed rape.

Sources said these tests have been recently carried out but refused to tell which suspect underwent which type of test. Police had arrested Ashish Chauhan alias Ashu (29), a resident of Sharaal village in Mahasu area of Kotkhai; Rajender Singh alias Raju (32), a driver; Subash Singh Bisht (42) and Deepak alias Deepu (29) and Lok Jung alias Chotu (19), hailing from Nepal, in connection with the case.

Sources said tests were carried out after getting nod from the competent court in Shimla. The tests and their results are not admissible in the courts as evidence but the agency uses them to get further evidence and indication if any of the suspects is lying in the matter.

The sleuths pursue leads given by the suspects in these tests and if any credible corroborative evidence is found, it is used as prosecution evidence.

One of the suspects who was also arrested , Suraj Singh, was found dead in police custody in which a separate case has been registered by the CBI.

The DGP had constituted SIT which arrested six people. The case was handed over to the CBI by the high court on July 19 on the state government’s plea amid public outburst against the state police.