Former Transport Minister of Haryana, OP Jain and former chief parliamentary secretary (CPS) Zile Ram and two witnesses Sandeep and Baljit Singh here on Friday gave their consent in writing in the CBI court, Panchkula for ‘polygraph’ test in the connection of murder of 58-year old Sarpanch, Karam Singh, of Karnal in September, 2011.
SPS Parmar, counsel of both accused OP Jain and Zile Ram told The Pioneer that both accused and witnesses were present in the court of Dr. Atul Maria, civil judge (Sr Division) cum special magistrate CBI on Thursday. After submitting the consent, court ordered CBI that investigating agency will have to take the ‘polygraph’ test in the presence of advocates of both the accused. CBI will will have to give a prior notice of a week to get the polygraph test.
Jain, was booked last year along with former Chief Parliamentary Secretary Zile Ram for the murder of Karam Singh, the sarpanch of Kambopura village. Both resigned from their posts in the wake of the allegations. The victim Sarpanch had lodged complaints of forgery and cheating against the duo before his death. Karam had accused Jain and Zile Ram for allegedly duping him and his relatives to the tune of around Rs13 lakh with the promise of providing his kin government jobs.
Karam's son Rajinder Singh had approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court after the Haryana vigilance bureau police had given a clean chit to both the accused.