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SC offers hope to man on death row

Updated on: 12 May,2010 09:20 AM IST |
Imran Gowhar |

Servant convicted of murdering employer's family may get respite following SC order banning narco analysis

Servant convicted of murdering employer's family may get respite following SC order banning narco analysis
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While the Supreme Court announced recently that narco-analysis is "an unwarranted intrusion of personal liberty," a divisional bench in March this year awarded a death sentence to a servant who killed the family of an Indian Forest Service officer.

The sentence was awarded solely on the basis of a narco-analysis report. The accused Ajai Kumar Pal had also given his consent for the polygraph test, which he underwent at the Bangalore Forensic Sciences Laboratory (FSL) inu00a0 the year 2008.

"A combination of polygraph, narco analysis and brain mapping and finger printing led the CBI to establish the guilt with 99.9 per cent accuracy," FSL sources said.

The accused Pal, who was sentenced to be hanged till death, had wiped out the entire family of an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer, with whom he was employed as a domestic help. The provocation for the crime was the constant taunting by the family members who complained about the quality of food he prepared.

"On a night when the officer was away, Ajay served the family, food mixed with pesticide. After the occupants got unconscious, the accused hit the three children in the house with an iron rod and set the house on fire," the official said.

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