Telgi takes lie detector test

Prime accused in the fake stamp paper probe Abdul Karim Telgi on Friday underwent a lie detector test in Bangalore after the Bombay High Court allowed the Special Investigating Team SIT to conduct the scientific tests on him and seven others. The high court allowed SIT to perform P-300 brain finger-printing, lie detector and narco-analysis tests on Telgi and seven others but restrained it from subjecting co-accused Ramachandra Rama Reddy to tests.

The court was hearing a petition filed by Reddy who had challenged a special court8217;s order of December 15 allowing the scientific tests on nine accused. Prosecutor Raja Thakre said the accused should be subjected to these tests as they were not cooperative. The prosecutor also relied upon a SC judgement which held the prosecution could not achieve much breakthrough in the Best Bakery case because it had not resorted to scientific methods of investigation.