RTI activist murder : CBI may seek MLA’s voice test

BHOPAL: After the arrest of five persons, including two women, in RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths are now concentrating on BJP MLA Dhruv Narayan Singh drawing up plans to collect his voice sample and to subject him for a second polygraph, sources privy to investigations said.
The CBI plan to take the MLA’s voice sample, has come after Saqib Ali alias Danger – an accused in Shehla killing—reportedly told the investigators that he rang up Singh and informed him about the murder, minutes after the activist was shot dead.
Danger, a local history sheeter with help of his cousin Tabish Khan from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, hired sharp shooters Irfan and Shanu Olanga of that place at the instance of interior designer Zaheda Pervez, the alleged key conspirator in the case, to bump off the activist on August 16 last year. Zaheda, too intimate to Singh, was extremely zealous of Shehla, who also had proximity with the legislator, investigators said.
Danger is understood to have told the CBI that he had a talk with Singh for more than three minutes. He reportedly revealed to the investigators about what the BJP MLA had told him during mobile phone talk. The country’s premier investigation agency will ask Singh to repeat the exact statements in the midst of a witness he spoke to the history-sheeter, after Shehla was shot dead, sources privy to the investigations said.
For sure,he is not going to say no to the voice recording or the second polygraph test given that he is a politician and knows it ramifications, a CBI official said. “If he says no to it, it could create an impression that he wants to skip it to conceal some fact,” he added.
Singh is in the midst of a storm after the CBI took over the investigations into Shehla killing from the state police last year. He had been quizzed thrice by the CBI and had already undergone a polygraph test some time back in Delhi. However, he turned out to be a hard nut to crack during interrogations, sources said.
The key conspirator in the case Zaheda, her acquaintances Saba Faruqui, Danger and sharpshooter, Irfan and Tabish Khan had been arrested. Shanu has been killed in a gang-war unrelated to Shehla murder case in Kanpur in November last. Zaheda, Saba and Danger were in judicial custody while the two other accused were in CBI remand. Now it appears, the CBI is closing in on the MLA.
"I have not been contacted by the CBI to come down to its office yet for the voice recording or second polygraph test, Singh told TOI on Friday evening, refusing to say anything further.