PUNE, Apr 20:The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today enhanced the reward money from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh for anyone giving credible information regarding the accused involved in the conspiracy and murder of RTI activist Satish Shetty.
The identity of the informant will be kept secret. The information can be given to the Superintendent of Police, CBI Anti-corruption Branch Pune, sources said.
The additional sessions judge Sadhana Shinde granted permission to the CBI yesterday to conduct polygraph test on the accused, witnesses and the suspects in the murder of Shetty.
The judge also granted permission to the CBI to record confessional statements of witnesses and interrogate three suspects at the Yerawada central jail. The court passed the order in three pleas filed by the CBI additional superintendent of police Sushil Prasad Singh and inspector Anjir Jadhav. Shetty, who invoked the RTI act for unearthing land scams in Pune district, was murdered near his residence at Talegaon Dhabade on January 13, 2010. The rural police had filed a chargesheet in the case against criminal lawyer Vijay Dabhade, Pramod Waghmare, Navnath Shelar, Dongraya alias Hanumant Rathod and Shyam Dabhade. (UNI)
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