CBI asked to reply to application about forensic report

JAIPUR: A lower court has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file a reply to an application filed by one of the accused policeman in Dara Singh encounter case, Jogaram regarding forensic reports. The policeman claimed in the application that the CBI has not put on record the forensic report prepared by nine well-known experts who concluded that the encounter could be genuine.
According to Jogaram's lawyer Hemant Nahata, the application was filed in the court of district and sessions judge on Friday.
"In the application, we raised objection over CBI's request to discredit the prosecution witness, the then Mansarovar SHO Ashok Vishnoi and consider him hostile. The CBI had requested that the witness be turned hostile as the agency has found that the scene of crime where the encounter took place had been tampered with. The agency has raised the theory of tampering suddenly," said the lawyer.
He added that it was mentioned in Jogaram's application that nine experts had prepared a forensic report over the encounter on the request of CBI. "The experts had given their opinion in which it was evident that the encounter could be genuine. However, this report was never put on record before the court," said Nahata.
He also said that a videography of the crime scene in which there were voices of then SHO Ashok Vishnoi and CO Gyanchand had been put on record before the court. "The voices had been matched with the samples taken from both the officers, however, the forensic conclusion drawn from the voice test was never put on record," the lawyer said.
He added that the court has sought reply from the CBI over the questions raised by his client.