Both failed to appear for voice test in connection with charge of provoking Sena men to riot in Pune.
Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray’s PA Milind Narvekar and party spokesperson Neelam Gorhe, MLC, skipped their date with the Pune police on Saturday to submit their voice test.
On February 23, judicial magistrate (first class) RL Wankhade allowed the police to collect the voice samples of the two Sena functionaries, who have been accused of hatching a conspiracy to create a law and order problem in Pune on December 28, 2010 during a bandh.
The bandh was called by the Sena to protest the Pune Municipal Corporation’s act of removing the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji’s teacher Dadoji Konddev from the premises of the historic Lal Mahal.
According to the police, Gorhe received a call from Narvekar, who allegedly instructed her to stage-manage a riot and create panic in the city on the bandh day. Narvekar allegedly instructed Gorhe to direct the party cadres to damage buses in the main city areas, instigate violence and create terror in people’s minds.
Following their failure to turn up for the voice test, senior police inspector Suhas Nadgauda said the two Sena office-bearers told that “they didn’t receive the court order”.
Stating that this reply was “unacceptable”, Nadgauda said the police will submit this before the court.
Gorhe wrote to the Bund Garden police station on Saturday morning that although the judicial magistrate (first class) gave an operative order on February 23, she has not read the order.
The city police had filed an application on February 15 before the magistrate seeking permission to conduct the voice sample test of Gorhe and Narvekar.
The police said as a part of the voice test, the suspects are made to read books. The natural voice and pitch is recorded in the morning, afternoon and night and then they are sent to the laboratory. The samples would then be sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), Chandigarh and to the Mumbai Forensic Science Laboratory for analysis.
On December 27, the Pune city police had tapped the cellphone and landline of Neelam Gorhe, after the Sena called a Pune bandh the next day. After their conversation, the Bund Garden police booked Gorhe and Narvekar and charged them under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (1860) relating to provocation with the intent to cause riot. A squad comprising special investigation team, crime branch and Bund Garden police has been formed to probe the case.
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