T'PURAM: The CBI sleuths from New Delhi, who are on a mission to find the culprits in the Sister Abhaya murder case, visited this website's newspaper office at Sasthamangalam here on Friday morning for an interaction with the journalist who broke the recent report over the tampering of the chemical examination result in the case.
CI Subhash Guddu and SI Vinod from the CBI special unit, New Delhi, had an interaction with this website's newspaper senior reporter B Sreejan over the recent developments in the case.
The CBI team inquired about the circumstances under which the report dated April 12 about the tampering of crucial evidence in the Sister Abhaya murder case was published.
The reporter refused to divulge the source, but said that he still stood by the story.
The team inquired about the document published by the this website's newspaper, a copy of which was readily handed over to them.
Regarding the progress of inquiry, the CBI sleuths said that all options were still open in the case.
“We are ruling out no possibilities. All leads are properly followed,'' they said.
When asked about the receipt of an anonymous letter indicating a forgery of chemical records by the CBI, they said the CBI gets hundreds of anonymous letters regarding each case and 99 percent of them were fake.
“So, we don't take all such letters seriously unless there is some evidence,'' said the officers.
They said that they would seek legal advice on whether to approach the trial court for the possession of the original work book in question, which is presently under the custody of the Thiruvananthapuram Chief Judicial Magistrate court.
The sleuths reached the office at 11 am and the interaction lasted for about one-and-a-half hours.
The CBI team had earlier questioned Chief Chemical Examiner R. Geetha and Museum SI M. Mohammed Hussain, who raided the CCE office. Guddu and Vinod will leave for New Delhi on Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, the CJM court, Thiruvananthapuram, finalised the formalities to despatch the original records for forensic examination to a reputed laboratory outside the state.
Sources said the documents may be sent for examination on Saturday.
