Gauri Lankesh murder accused agrees for narco analysis test, says lawyer
June 27, 2018 20:37
K T Naveen Kumar, an accused in the activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh murder case, has agreed to undergo a narco analysis test, his lawyer said today.
"My client has agreed to undergo a narco analysis test to prove his innocence in the Gauri Lankesh murder case. We have applied for it in the city civil court," counsel A Vedamurthy said.
A city civil and Sessions Court yesterday had sought to know from Kumar whether he was ready to undergo the narco analysis test after his counsel alleged that the Special Investigation Team probing the murder did not conduct any test earlier.
Making submissions before the court yesterday, Vedamurthy had alleged SIT had taken Kumar for a narco analysis test in Gujarat, but it did not inform him, as per court directions.
"It neither took us as accomplice to Kumar for narco analysis in Gujarat, nor conducted any test on him. We were not informed about it also. So by the time our advocate reached Gujarat, the SIT team was ready to leave with Kumar, saying
he refused to undergo the test," he said.
Vedamurthy alleged that no documents related to Rs 1.10 lakh payment to Forensic Science Laboratory for narco analysis was furnished.
He also alleged that the chargesheet filed by the SIT against Kumar was full of discrepancies.
-- PTI
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