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HC stays narco-analysis test on Asaram Ashram sadhaks

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Posted: Feb 17, 2009 at 0500 hrs IST

Ahmedabad The Gujarat High Court has put a stay on the demand for narco-analysis test on two Asaram Bapu sadhaks in connection with the mysterious death of two children at the ashram-run gurukul last July.

The two sadhaks, Yogesh Bhati and Pankaj Saxena, had approached the High Court after the Ahmedabad City Sessions Court rejected their appeal to disallow the CID Crime to conduct the tests.

Earlier, the Metropolitan Court had allowed the investigating agency to conduct the test on two sadhaks, which was challenged in the Sessions Court.

The two are witnesses in the case.

The two minor students were found dead in the Sabarmati riverbed under mysterious circumstances, two days after they went missing from the gurukul.

S P Majmudar, the lawyer who represented the sadhaks before the court of Justice A S Dave said: “We had contended that narco-analysis cannot be carried out without the consent of the accused.

“An appeal to this effect is pending before the Supreme Court. In our case, the two are witnesses, and to carry out tests on them would have major consequences."

Majmudar added: "The court has put a stay on the order of the Sessions Court till the further hearing on February 24."

The CID Crime officials are insisting on conducting the narco test on the two sadhaks as they suspect that the two are hiding some information.

The investigators had suspected this during the Lie Detection Tests, after which they decided to go in for the narco-analysis.

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