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A first: Babus face narco tests for lost Adarsh papers

The police have identified at least four officials from the urban development department who are suspected to have played a role in misplacing a crucial Adarsh file.

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In the first instance of its kind, babus of Mantralaya will be subjected to narco-analysis tests by the Mumbai police. The police have identified at least four officials from the urban development department who are suspected to have played a role in misplacing a crucial Adarsh file. They will be put through the brain mapping, polygraph and lie detector tests over the next few days.

The file had resurfaced later as mysteriously as it had vanished. However, some crucial papers had gone missing. The papers dealt with the coastal regulatory zone (CRZ) clearance to the now controversial project and the change of reservation of road to residential premises.

These four middle level officers are believed to be aware of the movement of the file during that period.

The police have interrogated these officials among  20 others but the exercise has not yielded any result. They have decided to put the four through the narco-analysis tests.

The police feel these tests will help them unearth the truth behind the mystery of the missing papers, because the investigations so far have revealed that these four officers are definitely in the know of things, but haven’t co-operated with the investigation team.

The tests are likely to be conducted over the next few days at the Kalina forensic science laboratory. All necessary formalities have been completed.

It will be the first instance in the country where middle level bureaucrats from a state secretariat will be put through such tests. In the past, criminals, gangsters, policemen and small-time politicians have undergone the tests.

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