NIA seeks permission to take evidence to Hyderabad

PANCHKULA: The NIA on Thursday sought permission of special court here to allow Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory experts to take material evidence collected in Samjhauta train blast case to Hyderabad facility for examination and comparison with samples collected in other terror attacks.

“In pursuance to the observations and inspection report prepared by the CFSL team, we moved an application here in the court of District and Sessions Judge Subhash Mehla, requesting that the sealed exhibits of the Samjhauta blast case, may be allowed to be send to the sophisticated CFSL centre at Hyderabad for examination and comparison with the other blast materials,” senior advocate R K Handa, NIA's Special Public Prosecutor in the Samjhauta case, said. A CFSL team arrived here for inspection of the blast material evidence.