Sunday, January 1 2006 10:01 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Bhopal: The controversial CD allegedly involving former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Sanjay Joshi is expected to be sent for forensic tests soon, police said yesterday (Dec 31, 2005).

"The CD will be sent for tests soon. Documentation necessary for the process was being prepared," Inspector General of Police (CID) M P Dwivedi told sources.

Refusing to divulge nature of investigation into FIR lodged yesterday against unknown persons, he said the probe was in a preliminary stage and strategies were being worked out to go ahead with it.

Though senior police officials were tight-lipped about the scandal, sources said the CID sleuths have been keeping a lab over hotels in and around the city so as to identify he room where the CD was allegedly shot.

Efforts were also on to trace source of courier carrying the scandalous CD, besides keeping a vigil on any hotelier changing decorations of rooms after it got exposed, they said adding, the Director General of Police (DGP) was himself coordinating the probe, while Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and other ministers were closely monitoring its progress.

The police were also on a look-out for 'unknown persons' who were allegedly blackmailing Joshi using the CD, sources said adding, on basis of Joshi's complaint, a case was registered against unknown persons under sections 387, 467, 471 and 507 of IPC and section 67 of the IT Act.

Joshi stepped down as BJP general secretary during party's national convention in Mumbai following circulation of the CD among senior leaders.