Srinagar: The four senior police officers
arrested in the Shopian case were given a clean chit by the
CBI after nothing adverse against them was found in lie
detector test, matching of DNA profiles and examination of
their call records.
The Special Investigating Team of Jammu and Kashmir
Police had filed an FIR against the officers alleging their
involvement in destroying evidence in the case of death of two
women -- Neelofar and Asiya.
The four police officials -- the then Superintendent of
Police Javed Iqbal Mattoo, Deputy SP Rohit Basgotra, SHO Qazi
Shafeez Ahmed and Sub Inspector Gazi Kareem -- were arrested
on the directions of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on July
15, this year for allegedly tampering with evidence in the
alleged rape and murder of the women.
"In the course of in-camera hearing, we have come to
learn from the three members of the SIT that an FIR has been
registered against those suspended police officers alleging
there involvement in destroying the evidence of the crime," a
High Court division bench headed by Justices Barin Ghosh and
Mohammed Yaqoob Mir had ruled while ordering their arrest.
Rejecting the rape and murder theory, the CBI chargesheet
gave a clean chit to the four saying none of the offences
mentioned against them could be substantiated.
The agency, in its 66-page chargesheet, said that the
four officers had been subjected to lie detector test, which
recorded no deception.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 23:11