Mumbai: One of the 64 accused in fake stamp paper scam today (Dec 18, 2003) moved the Mumbai High Court challenging a lower court order allowing Special Investigating Team (SIT) to conduct scientific tests on him and eight others, including alleged kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi to investigate their role in the crime.

The petition, filed by suspended officer of India Security Press, Ramachandra Rama Reddy, will come up for hearing before Justice Hemant Gokhale and Justice S S Parkar tomorrow, court sources told reporters.

A special court in Pune, on December 15, had allowed SIT's plea to conduct P-300 Brain Finger-printing test, Lie Detector test and Narco-analysis test on nine accused -- Abdul Karim Telgi, Anil Kumar Shah, Ramachandra Rama Reddy, Manoj Mehta, Dilip Kamath, Anil Gote, Abdul Azim Telgi, Abdul Rashid Kulkarni and Dattatraya Dal.

The impugned order was delivered on a prosecution's plea that incriminating material had cropped up during the interception of telephonic talks between prime accused Telgi and others and that it would be necessary to corroborate the alleged talks with further interrogation of the accused by subjecting them to scientific tests.

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