No injury marks found on maid

Forensics expert says chemical analyser report will give a more conclusive result
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The medical examination of the woman allegedly raped by Shiney Ahuja at the Police Hospital in Nagpada has primafacie not thrown up any clinching evidence to establish the use of force.

A forensics expert said, "The physical examination of the victim does not show any recent injury marks (nail or teeth).

We have collected the vaginal swab and only the chemical analyser report would be conclusive in ascertaining sexual assault."
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The expert clarified that they had not yet submitted any report to the police, as they were yet to examine Shiney.
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"He was brought to us earlier, but since the doctor was not available for conducting the tests, he was sent back," said the expert.

Advocate Shrikant Shivade, who is representing Shiney, rubbished the allegations levied on his client.

He said, "It is a clear case of fabrication. Shiney has been framed." When asked about reports that Shiney had confessed, Shivade said they were baseless.

Advocate Rohini Salian said that during her career as a public prosecutor, she had seen nearly 75 per cent of rape cases falling through during the trial. The main reasons were that the cases were bogus, or the victims turned hostile.

"Rape is a very technical and sensitive issue. If not handled maturely by both the police and the media, the damage could be severe," she said.

Maid gives wrong address in FIR

In her FIR, Shiney Ahuja's alleged rape victim said she stayed in flat 408 of Anand Narayan society in Virar. But when this reporter visited the address, instead of finding the Joshis (maid's family), she met a Thakur family.

"This is our house. There is no Joshi here," said a woman from the Thakur family. Even the secretary of the society, Gautam Saraf, denied that any Joshi stayed there.

Even in the logbook of Tarapore Towers, where Ahuja lives, the maid claimed she stayed in the Virar apartment. According to security supervisor Jayesh Desai, the maid had been working there for only around a month.
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"She used to enter a Virar address in the logbook. We couldn't give her an ID card, as she hadn't completed 45 days of work here.

That's our society's rule. We also get a police verification done before issuing the card." But now, said Desai, they would issue ID cards in two-three days. "The decision is an outcome of Shiney's incident," he added.