Events in the Rahul Mahajan drug prosecution have taken an interesting turn with a special Delhi court having just allowed police to subject him to “brain mapping” tests. Police had decided last week to withdraw their application for Mahajan and co-accused Sahil Zaroo to have a “narco-analysis” test performed on them.
Mahajan, you may recall, is the son of slain BJP senior leader Pramod Mahajan who, along with his father’s former aide Vivek Maitra, collapsed at his Delhi home at the beginning of this month before being rushed to hospital; Maitra died on arrival. Zaroo was said to have supplied the drugs. Police, who don’t seem to have got very far with the accused, say they want to conduct the tests to get to the “truth”.
During a “narco-analysis” test - also known as a “truth serum” test - the suspect is injected with sodium pentothal and then interrogated while under a hypnotic state.
“Brain-mapping” refers to scanning - through an EEG test - the brain of a suspect while he is being shown specific images and words. When the suspect recognises the relevant stimuli certain brainwaves can be detected.
The test will be undertaken some time after the 22nd of July.
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