Karnataka - Bangalore

Imran undergoes narco analysis

Staff Reporter

TRUTH TEST: Police escorting suspected terrorist Imran for a narco analysis in Bangalore on Saturday. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

BANGALORE: Suspected terrorist Imran Jalal, who was arrested by the Bangalore police on January 5, was subjected to narco analysis at the Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital here on Saturday.

Experts from Forensic Science Laboratory, under the supervision of doctors from the hospital, conducted the test on Imran for nearly four hours.

According to official sources, the police had prepared a set of about 70 questions to be posed to Imran. The city police, with inputs from and their counterparts from Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra and Gujarat, had framed these questions, the sources said.

Imran was reportedly questioned on his past, source of the arms and ammunition seized from him, his handlers in Pakistan, his contacts in India and their activities, the terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science and the serial train blasts in Mumbai, among other things.

As Imran is said to have contradicted certain statements he had made before the police earlier, he would be subjected to narco analysis again.

Though Imran did not reveal any names during the narco analysis, he spoke of the activities of some terrorist groups and their contacts in Kerala, the sources said.

Imran had undergone polygraph and brain mapping tests at Forensic Science Laboratory here on Friday. The sources said Imran was a "hard nut" and they were finding it difficult to get adequate and specific information from him.

As Imran complained of severe drowsiness after the narco analysis, he was made to stay at the hospital for a few hours, they said.

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