During the hearing, the trio said that they were willing to undergo the polygraph test
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday granted permission to the Delhi police to conduct polygraph tests on the suspects in the mysterious Sunanda Pushkar murder case.
The SHO of Sarojini Nagar police station had earlier moved a plea before the court seeking permission to conduct the polygraph test on the grounds that the suspects — Pushkar’s husband and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s domestic help Narain Singh, driver Bajrangi and friend Sanjay Dewan — were hiding material facts.
On Wednesday, during the hearing, the trio said that they were willing to undergo the polygraph test. After hearing their submission, metropolitan magistrate Sunil Kumar Sharma allowed the Delhi police to conduct the lie-detector test on them. “Application for polygraph test on the three suspects is allowed, subject to NHRC and the Supreme Court guidelines,” the court noted in its order.
During the hearing, the cops argued that the suspects were hiding crucial facts regarding the injuries on Pushkar’s body. The defence counsel, appearing for the suspects, on the other hand, argued that their clients were fully cooperating with the police.
“The Supreme Court has said that this (polygraph test) is not relied-upon evidence but if the police wants to do this, we are giving the consent. Our clients are ready to undergo the polygraph test because we don’t want to give the impression that we are running away from the probe,” the defence counsel argued.
