Mumbai: Mumbai High Court today (Dec 19, 2003) restrained special investigating team (SIT) from carrying out scientific tests on fake stamp paper scam accused Ramachandra Rama Reddy, but allowed SIT to conduct these tests on eight other accused, including prime accused Abdul Karim Telgi.

Hearing a petition filed by Reddy, suspended officer of India Security Press and accused in fake stamp paper probe, Justice Hemant Gokhale and Justice S S Parkar partly allowed interim relief of restraining SIT from subjecting him to P-300 brain finger-printing test, lie detector test and narco-analysis test.

The judges, however, allowed the SIT to conduct tests on Abdul Karim Telgi, Manoj Mehta, Anil Kumar Shah, Dilip Kamath, Anil Gote, Abdul Aziz Telgi, Abdul Rashid Kulkarni and Dattatraya Dal.

Prosecutor Raja Thakre informed the court that a SIT team from Pune was already in Bangalore to hold scientific tests on the prime accused Abdul Karim Telgi. These tests would be performed today.

The court adjourned till January 6, the petition filed by Reddy challenging a special court's order of December 15 allowing SIT to conduct these tests on nine accused. The petition will be heard for admission on that day.

The impugned order was delivered by the special court in Pune 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.

PTI



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