Mid-day meal deaths: Accused principal takes lie detector test
3 Aug 2013 5:24 AM IST
Meena Devi, the principal of a Bihar school where 23 children died after eating contaminated food last month, underwent a lie detector test on Thursday, police said.
A day after Meena Devi was taken on police remand, a team of the Patna-based Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) along with two experts from New Delhi-based Central Forensic Science Laboratory conducted the polygraph test at Saran.
Saran superintendent of police Sujit Kumar confirmed that the Special Investigation Team, which is probing the case, conducted her polygraph test after a medical check-up.
‘She has been subjected to the lie detector test,’ he said. Meena Devi, principal of the government primary school at Gandaman village in Saran district, was arrested last month and sent to judicial custody till 5 August by a court in Saran. She is named as an accused in the case. According to SIT officials, the FSL also prepared a questionnaire for the purpose.
The SIT last Tuesday filed a petition before chief judicial magistrate AK Jha and prayed for four-day police remand to conduct polygraph test on her. She had earlier claimed innocence and denied her involvement in the tragedy.
A day after Meena Devi was taken on police remand, a team of the Patna-based Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) along with two experts from New Delhi-based Central Forensic Science Laboratory conducted the polygraph test at Saran.
Saran superintendent of police Sujit Kumar confirmed that the Special Investigation Team, which is probing the case, conducted her polygraph test after a medical check-up.
‘She has been subjected to the lie detector test,’ he said. Meena Devi, principal of the government primary school at Gandaman village in Saran district, was arrested last month and sent to judicial custody till 5 August by a court in Saran. She is named as an accused in the case. According to SIT officials, the FSL also prepared a questionnaire for the purpose.
The SIT last Tuesday filed a petition before chief judicial magistrate AK Jha and prayed for four-day police remand to conduct polygraph test on her. She had earlier claimed innocence and denied her involvement in the tragedy.
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