CBI searches UP cop's bank locker, draws blank

NEW DELHI: The CBI on Wednesday searched the bank lockers of dismissed UP Police official Simranjit Kaur in connection with Nithari serial killings but drew blank even as its investigations into the incidents was still to pick up momentum in the absence of any forensic report.

The CBI, after raiding sub-inspector Kaur's residence on Tuesday, opened her lockers in the State Bank of India's Meerut branch but found nothing, official sources said, adding the bank records showed the lockers had last been operated sometime in December 2006.

The CBI has already claimed to have seized from Kaur's residence some documents pertaining to the missing children.

Kaur is likely to be questioned by CBI soon and she could be booked for the charge of failing to perform her official duties, the sources said.

In the meantime, CBI was waiting for a report from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on individualisation of bio-material and skeletal remains exhumed from the nearby drain of the house of Moninder Singh Pandher in Nithari.

The report was expected to be handed over only next week as AIIMS forensic experts were busy with an international conference.