2 teams on Bheda trail,State tells HC

Submitting an investigation report in the case,additional public prosecutor AS Gadkari told the court that the investigations by the two special teams were underway and efforts were being made to trace Bheda. The court was also told that Bheda’s phone call records were being examined by the police as he had earlier received threat calls asking him not to depose in the case.

Calling for a further investigation report,a Division Bench of Justice PV Hardas and Justice MN Gilani adjourned the case till next week.

Bheda is the key witness in the killing of Ramnarayan Gupta alias Lakhan Bhaiya,an alleged Chhota Rajan gang member,in November 2006. After Gupta’s brother Ramprasad moved the High Court,the court directed a magistrate to inquire into the case. The magistrate inferred that the encounter was fake and Lakhan Bhaiya was in fact murdered.