Sandhya Singh case: Narco test likely on Navi Mumbai cop

S Ahmed Ali TNN

April 18, 2013

Mumbai: The crime branch of the city police has focused its attention on Navi Mumbai assistant police inspector Anil Behrani in the Sandhya Singh murder investigation after giving a clean chit to contract killer and autorickshaw driver Mehendi Hassan Ansari in the case.
    It is learnt that after brain mapping and polygraph tests on Behrani, the crime branch now wants to do a narco test on him.
    The first scientific tests were conducted last week with the help of officials of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Kalina. Sources said that while the results would take another week or two to come in, the preliminary FSL finding was that Behrani’s brain mapping behaviour was normal.
    “But we are not taking any chances and are likely to send Behrani for the final narco or liedetection test, which will clear our doubts,” an officer said.
    Talking to TOI, Behrani said he had agreed to the brain mapping and polygraph tests as he wanted to cooperate with the investigation. “I would not like to comment on the ongoing investigation,” he said.
    The crime branch had found Behrani’s cell number in Sandhya’s call detail reports. Behrani, who is attached to the NRI police station in Navi Mumbai, told the police that he had come in contact with Sandhya when she lodged a complaint of petty theft at her home in November.
    Later in November, Sandhya took Behrani to Taloja to show him her flat there that she wanted to rent out.
    Sandhya was the sister of yesteryear actresses Sulakshna and Vijayata Pandit. On December 13 she left home to go to a bank to deposit jewellery, but did not return home. On January 28, a British birdwatcher spotted her skeletal remains in the marshes off Palm Beach Road.

Sandhya Singh