Shopian probe hits another roadblock

Srinagar, Aug 25 (PTI) The probe into the rape and
murder of two women in Shopian (in India's northern state of
Jammu and Kashmir) has hit another roadblock as the DNA
analysis of hair recovered from a police van did not match
with either of the victims or the police officials arrested in
connection with the case.

The hair was recovered by the Special Investigating
Team, constituted by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, from a
police vehicle, from which cries of women were heard on May
29, as claimed by two witnesses before a magistrate.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) was directed by
the High Court to send the hair for DNA analysis and find out
whether it matched with the victims or the four police
officials, including the then Superintendent of Police Javed
Mattoo, arrested in connection with the case.

The Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) stated
that the DNA of hair neither matched with the two women --
Aaseya (17) and Nilofar (22) -- allegedly raped and murdered
in Shopian or with any of the police officials accused in the
case, official sources said Tuesday.

Earlier, this month, the probe came to a standstill
when it came to light that key forensic evidence comprising
the slides of the vaginal swabs did not match with the
victims.

The Special Investigating Team headed by Farooq Ahmed,
at present Inspector General of Police (Kashmir), had sent
these to CFSL for making a DNA profile of the tissue cells
present in slides. (More) PTI SKL
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