Apollo says no drugs in Rahul, forensic lab finds heroin in Moitra’s pocket, testing traces in Rahul stomachwash

Rahul was brought in a critical condition and top sources said advanced clinical tests are being conducted on the minuscule drug traces found in the “gastric lavage” (stomach contents) collected after Rahul Mahajan was given a stomachwash at the Apollo Hospital.

A CFSL scientific team which collected samples from the Mahajan residence as well as Apollo Hospital is understood to have worked overnight on the case and will be conducting another series of tests on drug traces found on Mahajan’s body and gastric levage tomorrow.

The final CFSL report is expected to be submitted to the Government in a day or two.

The CFSL’s report is significant since it matches the description of the drug recovered (‘‘white powdery substance’’), the version of all four visitors to the Mahajan house and textbook symptoms of heroin abuse —nausea, vomiting, constricted pupils and clouded mental functioning, all illustrated by Mahajan and Maitra. While heroin is usually injected into the bloodstream, it can also be smoked or sniffed/snorted.

The Fourth Man pops up on TV

• Sahil Zaroo, the missing fourth person in the Mahajan drugs abuse case, surfaced in Srinagar on Saturday, where he was arrested as he was announcing his intention to surrender at Aaj Tak studio.

• He said he decided to surrenderon learning that Maitra had died and that allegations were being made against him.

• In Delhi, police named Sahil in the FIR in the Mahajan case, filed at Tughlak Road Police Staion. Earlier, the FIR named “unknown persons.”

• The charges are of illegal use of drugs and destruction of evidence.

• Apollo Hospital, where Mahajan was treated, said there was no trace of any drug found in him. A toxic screen test to determine the presence of substances of abuse, turned up negative.

• Mahajan’s uncle and BJP leader Gopinath Munde said he suspected Rahul and Moitra were poisoned.

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