Investigations into the alleged rape and killing of Kauser Bi,wife of Sohrabuddin Sheikh who was himself killed in a staged police encounter on November 26,2005,have hit a dead-end with the CBI getting a negative report from Germany on the soil purported to contain her remains that was sent there for analysis. CBI had dug up the Sabarmati river bank in Illol village of Sabarkantha district,which is also the native place of suspended DIG D G Vanzara,a prime accused in the case,and sent the soil samples to a laboratory in Germany for testing if there were human remains. It was believed that Kauser Bis remains were disposed of here. In its last stages of investigation in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case,the CBI is soon going to file a supplementary chargesheet,the fourth in the case. This chargesheet is expected to focus on the alleged rape and murder of Kauser Bi. Sub-inspector Ravindra Makwana,who was posted at the ATS office on the day of Sohrabuddins encounter killing,had testified about the alleged rape in his statement to the CBI in August 2010. His statement formed part of the supplementary chargesheet recently submitted in the special CBI court. A CBI officer supervising the Sohrabuddin case probe told The Indian Express Tuesday,The laboratory in Germany has sent a report that the mud samples collected from the river bank have no human remains. The exercise turned out to be futile. The investigation will now depend on the statements of witnesses collected during the course of investigation. The samples of soil were collected from Illol village in Sabarkantha in February 2012 by the CBI and sent to the Forensic Science Institute in Wiesbaden and DNA Testing Laboratory in Cologne. The CBI had sought a detailed report on samples through forensic palynology,an examination of pollen and powdered minerals to ascertain if an object was at a certain place at a certain time. This could have helped the CBI zero in on the place of the killing.
