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Ahmedabad: After a sessions court accepted a police request to subject former senior Gujarat police official D.G. Vanzara and 13 others to narco-tests, the Forensic Science Laboratory, Gandhinagar, is all set to conduct the tests from May 5 to May 8.
The CID (criminal investigation department) crime branch began the process of conducting narco-tests on the officers after additional sessions judge R.H. Sharma granted permission to do so on March 13.
All the 14 accused are in judicial custody and lodged in Sabarmati jail. Those in custody, apart from Vanzara, include Indian Police Service officers Rajkumar Pandian, M.N. Dinesh, N.K. Amin, inspector N.H. Dabhi, constable Ajay Kumar, commando Santram Sharma and sub-inspectors N.V. Chauhan, Himanshusinh, and Shyamsinh.
District Inspector General Rajnish Rai had moved an application in the chief metropolitan court here for the accused to be made to take the tests but the court had rejected the request. The city sessions court later allowed the petition after the prosecution referred to a decision by the Gujarat High Court in another case. The High Court had held last year that the consent of the accused is not required for such tests.
Encounter faked
The arrest of Vanzara on April 24 last year followed a statement by the state in the Supreme Court that the encounter of Sohrabuddin by Vanzara and his team had been faked. Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausar Bi were picked up from a bus on November 23, 2005, near Tandola village, 180km from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. Sohrabuddin was later shot dead in a fake encounter on November 26, 2005.
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