The two have been accused of hatching a conspiracy to create a law-and-order problem in Pune on December 28 last year during a bandh.
Judicial magistrate (first class), RL Wankhade, on Wednesday allowed the Pune city police to collect the voice samples of Shiv Sena executive president, Uddhav Thackeray’s personal assistant, Milind Narvekar, and Sena MLC and
party spokesperson, Neelam Gorhe.
The two have been accused of hatching a conspiracy to create a law-and-order problem in Pune on December 28 last year during a bandh.
It was called by the Shiv Sena to protest against the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) act of removing the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji’s teacher, Dadoji Konddeo, from the premises of the historic Lal Mahal.
According to the police, Gorhe received a call from Narvekar. He allegedly instructed her to stage-manage a riot and create panic in the city on bandh day. He also allegedly instructed Gorhe to direct the Shiv Sena cadre to damage buses in main city areas, instigate violence and create terror in the minds of the people.
On the day of the bandh, the police filed 28 cases against Sena activists.
On Wednesday, the magistrate directed the investigating officer (IO), senior police inspector Suhas Nadgauda of Bund Garden police station, to take the voice samples of the suspects. He has been asked to file the original compact disc containing the conversation intercepted by the police in the court before taking the voice samples of Gorhe and Narvekar.
Speaking to reporters, additional commissioner of police (south region), Prabhat Kumar said, “On Thursday, we will get the court order in hand and after going through it, we will fix a date and time to collect the samples in Pune.”
Assistant public prosecutor, Shilpa Mahatekar strongly argued in the court on the need for a voice sample test. “It is not infringing on the rights of any citizen,” she said. The city police had filed an application on February 15 before the magistrate seeking permission to conduct the voice sample test.
The police said the suspects are made to read aloud from books. The voice would be recorded in the morning, afternoon and night, and the samples sent to the Central Forensics Science Laboratory (CFSL), Chandigarh, and to the Forensic Science Laboratory in Mumbai.
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