Forensic Science Laboratory

Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka on Friday dismissed a petition seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the death of Nandita, a 14-year-old student from Tirthahalli in Shivamogga district.

The girl’s father had filed the petition questioning the probe by the State police.

However, Justice K.L. Manjunath dismissed the petition after the State Advocate-General told the court that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), to which the probe was entrusted to, had almost completed the investigation, and the final report would be submitted to the jurisdictional court within two weeks.

The CID had recently announced that girl had committed suicide, and dismissed her father’s claim that she was murdered. Besides, the CID had also ruled out her modesty being outraged.

Terming the panchayts “super governments”, the High Court on Friday asked the State to control their functions before they go out of control in granting licences for various purposes without having the powers to do so.

“These panchayats are acting like super governments. They are issuing all kinds of licences, though they don’t have any power. Government needs to cap them…,” observed Justice Ram Mohan Reddy during the hearing of a petition through which the court has been monitoring the steps taken by the government to prevent the formation of layouts illegally on lands coming under the jurisdiction of panchayts.

Senior IAS officer Rajeev Chawla, who is assisting the court as court commissioner, told the court that he would bring to the notice of the government the issues related to panchayats.

Bengaluru: In a major breakthrough in probe into Nandita death case, the forensic experts have upheld the authenticity of the death note found in her note book.

The handwriting analysis of the suicide note has found that it was in fact Nandita’s writing, according to top sources in the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) here.

The FSL’s question document division has come to this conclusion and the report is expected to be submitted on Monday, according to sources.

Nandita, a Class 8 girl from Thirthahalli died at a private hospital in Manipal on October 31, after she allegedly consumed poison.

The parents of the girl and Sangh Parivar complained that she was allegedly abducted and poisoned by three men belonging to a different community.

However, the death note, which was later found by the police, suggested that she had decided to end her life. The family contended that the death note found by the police in one of the girl’s notebooks was fake.

The sources said the report would be submitted to the CID officials for further investigation. While the post-mortem report revealed that the victim was not sexually assaulted, the CID was waiting for the handwriting expert’s opinion.

A senior CID official, who is heading the investigation, said he had not seen the report and that he would not be able to say anything now.

“It could also have been sent to the jurisdictional police directly,” he added.

However, the local police said they had no role to play, as the case had been handed over to the CID.

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