In what appears to be a precursor to arresting some lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (lBSNAA) officials supposedly complicit in the Ruby Choudhary case, Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing it at the behest of the State police has decided to go for legal verification of the evidences recovered so far in course of the investigation. This is to ensure that the evidences to be presented in the court in case of such arrests being made stand the judicial scrutiny, said State director general of police BS Sidhu on Friday.
SIT probe has now reached the final stage and the mystery would be unraveled in three/ four days, he added. Earlier, some evidences were sent to forensic science laboratories based in Dehradun and some other parts of the country for examination. Reports are being received now and the SIT officers are working on them seriously to wind up the present round of the investigation, Sidhu said.
He said in clear terms that arresting the persons concerned involved in this case is a matter of days, given the present stage of the investigation. If things happen the way the State police boss has hinted at, it would take things to their logical conclusion, the observers said.
“It is clear as day light that a section of the academy higher-ups are involved neck deep in the case. Things have also triggered doubt as to whether a parallel IAS manufacturing racket with tentacles spread far and wide has been operating. We hope SIT would lay bare the mystery, layer after layer, without trying to beat about the bush in the least. The sooner things are cleared the better for the academy and the country as well,” an observer said. The case came into focus after an academy security officer Satyaveer Singh registered a case under Sections 420/467/468/471 of the IPC against Choudhary in the Mussoorie Police Station on April 2, alleging that she had stayed there clandestinely while posing as an IAS officer. She was arrested late night on April 3.