08 April,2009 03:54 PM IST | | PTI
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday sought original cell phone records of President Pratibha Patil's brother GN Patil and four others in Vishram Patil murder case.
Vishram Patil's widow, Rajni Patil, has moved the court seeking to make GN Patil an accused in the case.
The division bench of Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice DY Chandrachud reserved the judgement, but called for certain documents and records.
The state will have to submit original phone records of GN Patil, his associates Ulhas Patil and Ramesh Chaudhary and two of the accused, namely, Damodar Lokhande and Leeladhar Narkhede.
Court also sought recordings of statements given by accused Raju Mali and Raju Sonawane to the police, and reports of their narco tests.
Rajni's case is that her husband was killed by men hired by GN Patil. Both Vishram and GN Patil were Jalgaon Congress leaders, and murder was fall-out of political rivalry, she alleges in petition. But CBI has concluded the probe, and given a clean chit to GN Patil.
Court today heavily came down upon police inspector NS Bhuke of Jalgaon crime branch, who initially probed the case, for not recording Rajni's statement.
