Hearing on CBI plea for forensic tests on Raju posted to Apr 6

HYDERABAD: The CBI-designated court posted hearing on a petition of the investigating agency for subjecting former Satyam Computer Chairman B Ramalinga Raju and two others to a lie-detector test to April 6.

Besides, hearing on another petition of CBI, which sought court's permission to obtain signatures and hand-writing samples of the five accused in the Rs 7,800-crore Satyam fraud case was also posted for Monday, April 6.

The five accused whose signatures and hand-writing samples CBI wants to obtain are Raju, his brother Rama Raju, company's former CFO Vadlamani Srinivas and former partners of Price Waterhouse S Gopalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas, though it wants to conduct lie-detector and brain-mapping tests on the first three only.

Following the defence lawyers' request for more time to file reply on the CBI's twin pleas, the XIV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate adjourned hearing on both applications to April 6.