Author: PTI
Publication: The Times of India
Date: November 26, 2008
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Presidents_brother_refused_to_undergo_lie_detector_test_CBI/articleshow/3760511.cms?TOI_latestnews
[Note from the Hindu Vivek Kendra: The secular
media will not find the whole episode of not taking the lie detector test
as odd, given that Sadhvi Pragyaji has been subjected to the narco tests many
times, even though the first tests did not reveal anything untoward.]
The CBI has informed the Bombay High Court
that G N Patil, brother of President Pratibha Patil, and two others had refused
to undergo a lie detector test during the agency's probe in the three-year-old
murder of a Congress leader of Jalgaon in Maharashtra.
In its report filed before the High Court,
the CBI said G N Patil and two others -- Ulhas Patil and Ramesh Choudhary
(Congress leaders in Jalgaon) -- have refused to undergo lie detection test.
The agency, however, gave a clean chit to
G N Patil saying that there was no evidence of his involvement in the conspiracy
to murder Vishram Patil, former president of Jalgaon district Congress.
He was murdered on September 21, 2005 and
his wife -- Rajni -- had moved the High Court last year, saying that CBI has
not probed the alleged role of G N Patil.
Giving reasons as to why G N Patil was not
found involved in the murder, the CBI found as not admissible, claims made
by Raju Sonawane, an accused chargesheeted by the agency, implicating Patil
and two others to have allegedly conspired with Raju Mali, another accused,
to eliminate Vishram Patil.
Eyewitness Rambhau Gobru Pawar had named G
N Patil, Ulhas Patil and Ramesh Choudhary but the CBI claimed the same could
not be corroborated and hence was dismissed.
Sonawane, a chargesheeted accused, had pointed
out at a house where the conspiracy had taken place. The building was that
of Dr Ulhas Patil's hospital but the staff of there denied that he had ever
visited the place.
