HC stays narco-tests on Dawood aide

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today stayed narco-analysis and brain mapping tests on Brijesh Singh, an alleged Dawood Ibrahim aide and accused in the 1992 J J Hospital shootout case.Sessions Court had earlier this month had allowed the police to get the tests conducted on him, a decision which Singh challenged in the High Court.A Division Bench of Justices Bilal Nazki and A P Bhangale admitted the petition and stayed the tests.Singh was arrested in Uttar Pradesh last year. He was later handed over to Mumbai Police in connection with the shootout in which Arun Gawli gang member Shailesh Haldankar and two Police Constables were killed by Dawood's men.The shootout took place when Haldankar was admitted to the government-run hospital, where he was being guarded by the police.© Copyright 2008 PTI. All rights reserved.
Monday, April 21, 2008
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