On Monday, Poonawala had come under an attack by some weapon-wielding men at the FSL when he was in a police van.
Officials of the CBI had brought Dr Rajesh Talwar's coumpounder, Krishna, to Bengaluru in order to subject him to brain mapping and narco-analysis tests. Prior to conducting the scientific tests, Krishna was questioned at length by both the CBI and Forensic Science Laboratory officials, a pre-requisite before the actual tests are conducted.
Extradited gangster Abu Salem gave a wealth of information on underworld activities and even revealed details of incidents that happened 15 years ago during a narco-analysis test in Bangalore Friday.
Terror suspects Mohammad Asif and Shakeel Mali were subjected to polygraph (lie-detector) test at the Forensic Science Laboratory in Bangalore on Tuesday, FSL sources said.
The Bihar police on Thursday conducted polygraph test of Meena Devi, the principal of a government primary school in Saran district where 23 children died after eating contaminated food last month.
Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan has met auto-rickshaw driver Bhajan Singh Rana, who rushed him to hospital after he was injured in the knife attack at his home in Mumbai in the wee hours last week, and thanked him for the timely help.
The police say they only found some 'Jihaadi literature' on the tapes.
Rafiq, a suspect in the Hyderabad bomb blasts that killed 42 people, was on Thursday subjected to a narco-analysis test, the second one to be conducted on himsince last week.
A compact disc containing the alleged hate speeches of BJP leader Varun Gandhi, which created a furore ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, was "not doctored", the Hyderabad-based Forensic Science Laboratory has said in its report.
The pieces of Walkar's body were kept inside the refrigerator when he called the psychologist at his place, according to police sources.
The Jharkhand police took India's second most-wanted Maoist Pramod Mishra to Bangalore's Forensic Science Laboratory for a narco-analysis test on Friday, only to find that the doctor who administers the tests has been dismissed from service.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has listed 11 pieces of evidence, such as reports of DNA and blood samples, in its charge sheet to hold arrested Kolkata Police civic volunteer Sanjay Roy as the 'sole accused' in the rape and murder of a woman doctor at the RG Kar hospital in Kolkata.
Telgi has said in a letter read out by his lawyers that he is disturbed by the reports.
Alarmed over the menace of the fake Indian currency notes spreading its tentacles in India, the government has issued a directive to the Reserve Bank of India to withdraw from circulation the notes of 1996 and 2000 series.
A Forensic Science Laboratory source told rediff.com that the second test was necessary as the first one had been a failure. It is said that Rajkumar, Talwar's colleague Anita Durrani's domestic help, had not revealed much during the first test.
Meet Dr Malini, the assistant director, FSL Bengaluru, who has played the lead role in all the tests that have been conducted. Dr Malini, who is a mother of two children narrated to rediff.com her experience at the FSL Bengaluru where she has dealt with 130 suspected terrorists, 15 Naxalites and several other criminals.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday conducted a polygraph test on Rajesh Talwar, prime accused and father of the victim Aarushi, even as the probe agency was trying hard to find out the weapon used in the crime and the apparel of the dentist's compounder.
A local court on Friday had allowed Mumbai police to subject Abhishek to scientific tests.
Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case who was initially reported missing in Meghalaya, apparently visited Indore after her husband was murdered and stayed in a rented flat for three days, a police official said on Tuesday.
The police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed in the area on Sunday to maintain law and order.
It is said the hard disks contain jihadi material used to brainwash and recruit youth.
A preliminary post-mortem report said there were no torso bones among the remains, he said.
RDX and timer were used in the explosion that ripped apart a taxi at Wadi Bunder in central Mazgaon during the November 26 Mumbai terror attack, sources said."Samples from the blast tested at forensic science laboratory in Mumbai showed that RDX and timer were used in the explosion," sources said, adding that the explosive used was similar to that used in Vile Parle taxi blast.
Plumes of smoke could be seen billowing from the spot. A purported video of the aftermath of the explosion also surfaced on social media showing thick dense white smoke.
Missing reports of 205 persons have been registered at Joshimath police station so far.
Voice spectrography test reports of Shetty will also be sought from Forensic Science Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
The bullets in both cases 'have been fired through a single country made pistol chambered for 7.65 mm caliber pistol cartridges', a source said quoting the report.
The Goa police say British teen Scarlette Keeling was first raped and then died due to a drug overdose. The police claim that Placido Carvalho had been supplying drugs to Scarlette and that he was the one who raped her. Scarlette's mother has sought the Prime Minister's intervention in the case, saying she had lost faith in the state police.
Coming close on the heels of the recovery of charred bones and portions of skulls from five graves, the CBI has found more bones from a canal near a village at Nandigram.
The Bangalore police may have to wait a while longer before they get the contents of the hard disc belonging to Khafeel Ahmed, the suspect in the UK terror plot who died a month back.
A total of 149 kgs of mephedrone or 'meow meow' drug (both in powder and liquid form), 50 kg ephedrine, and 200 litres of acetone was recovered from the three labs located in Bhinmal of Jalore district and Osian in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan and Gandhinagar in Gujarat, the officer said.
The police officials said all the five accused will have to undergo the polygraph test, while Sagar and Manoranjan will have to undergo additional naro-analysis and brain mapping tests.
Amidst rumblings within the state Bharatiya Janata Party seeking a change of leadership in strife-torn Manipur, Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Sunday tendered his resignation to Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla at the Raj Bhavan in Imphal.
The Calcutta high court on Wednesday directed CFSL Delhi to immediately collect necessary materials for forensic examination at Bogtui village in Bengal's Birbhum district, where at least eight people were charred to death in the suspected fallout of a TMC panchayat official's murder.
The Saket court on Tuesday extended the police custody of Aftab Poonawala to four more days after he was produced before the court via video conferencing in a special hearing.
The highlight of Tuesday's debate on Operation Sindoor was the speech by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the rebuttal by Congress's Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi coming a close second.
The police have said that investigations into other issues will continue.
Police and FSL are now awaiting the DNA test reports of the four accused arrested in the case, he said.
