New Delhi: The CBI has recovered a pair of slippers belonging to the elder of the two teenage girls who were gangraped and murdered in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district on May 27.
It has sent the soiled slippers for forensic analysis in the hope that the footwear may provide some clues to the perpetrators’ identities.
Sources said the victim’s family members, who kept feigning ignorance about the slippers, provided the footwear to agency sleuths only after intense grilling. Sources said that although they do not doubt the intentions of the family members, they are not cooperating enough in the investigation.
“Earlier, too, the mobile phone of the victim was not provided to CBI officers. When the agency put pressure, the family provided the phone in broken condition,” sources said.
“Investigators are not convinced by the chain of events given by the family members of the victims, including their fathers. The CBI has put four persons — the fathers of the victims, a relative of the family and an eyewitness through lie-detector tests as the agency is not convinced with their statements. The agency is awaiting the results of the polygraph test, after which a decision on further tests will be taken,” sources said.
CBI sleuths also scrutinised the bank account details of the fathers of the victims after finding some suspicious transactions.
The CBI on June 12 had registered a case of gang-rape and murder against five persons, including two police officials, to probe the rape and murder of two teenage girls.
