Srinagar: CBI has again approached the Jammu
and Kashmir High Court seeking to dismiss criminal charges
against four policemen, including then Shopian Superintendent
of Police Javed Mattoo, arrested for alleged destruction of
evidence in connection with death of two women.
Submitting a fresh affidavit in the High Court recently,
the CBI gave details about the lie-detector test conducted on
the four police officials and said "no deception was found on
their part in reply to any of the questions put to them."
Besides Mattoo, the three others who continue to be
suspended since July last year are Deputy Superintendent of
Police Rohit Basgotra, Station House Officer Shafiq Ahmed and
Head Constable Gazi Abdul Kareem.
"Further, no criminality could be attributed to anyone of
them and as such they have been sought to be discharged from
this case," the CBI affidavit said.
CBI had approached the High Court in March this year
seeking an end to the monitoring of the case by the High Court
as the agency had already filed a chargesheet against 13
people including doctors and lawyers.
The case relates to death of two women -- Neelofar (22)
and Aasiya (17). Their bodies had been found in a stream at
Shopian in May last year and the locals alleged that the duo
had been murdered after being raped by security forces.
Life came to a standstill in the area for nearly 47 days
due to protests and the case was handed over to CBI for a
probe. The probe agency, in its chargesheet filed before a
court in Srinagar, said that Aasiya was a virgin and the death
of the two women was due to drowning in the stream where water
level was too high on those days.
CBI has also contested a letter written by a so-called
criminologist on the issue as malafide and gave a para-wise
rebuttal of charges levelled against the forensic doctors who
had conducted the post-mortem as well as DNA examination.
The CBI investigations claimed that doctors in the
district hospital had not conducted the port-mortem properly
and had in fact fabricated evidence.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 18:51