THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2015 (PAGE 14) DAILY EXCELSIOR, Pak boat carried terrorists: HM SIT begins probe into Sunanda's death NEW , Jan 7: Lakhvi to stay in jail ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: The apex court also referred , Jan 7: suspect as yet. The FIR was ted to police on September 30, With questions over Coast Guard's 'boat' operation persisting, the case back to the High Court filed against unknown persons. said that her brain, kidney, lungs Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said those travelling in the Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the for a "complete hearing" before A Special Investigation The investigators have decid- and liver were functioning nor- Pakistani vessel were suspected terrorists as per the "given circum- 2008 Mumbai terror attack mas- Team has begun its probe into giving a final decision. ed to send her viscera samples to a mally and that her death was stances". termind, would remain in jail "The IHC seemed to have taken the mysterious death of laboratory either in Britain or the caused by poisoning. "With given circumstances in the Pakistani boat, it is clear that after Pakistan's Supreme Court Congress MP ’s the decision in a hurry. It did not US to identify the poison includ- The 12-page “Subsequent they were suspected terrorists," he told reporters here. today overturned the High Court hear the Government's arguments wife even as ing whether it could be radioac- Medical Board Opinion” had said, Singh was replying to questions about the four people on board order suspending his detention Delhi Police Commissioner BS in the case. The case is being tive isotopes that cannot be detect- “The cause of death in this case is a boat, which "exploded" and sank in the Arabian Sea in the inter- under a public security act Bassi today said there are prima referred back to the IHC which ed in Indian labs. poisoning. Viscera are positive for vening night of December 31 and January one during an Indian which evoked a strong reaction facie reasons to believe it is a should conclude hearing after giv- Sources said the SIT is likely ethyl alcohol, caffeine, acetamin- Coast Guard operation. from . ing an opportunity to the case of murder. to question Tharoor, his relatives ophen and cotinine.” He, however, did not elaborate on the "circumstances which he Bassi said the SIT has A two-member Supreme Government to give its arguments," and personal staff along with the From the medical documents was referring to. Court bench headed by Justice Justice Khawaja remarked. finalised an “action plan” to employees of the five-star hotel made available to them the The Home Minister's remarks came as questions were being investigate the case and did not Jawwad S Khawaja set aside the The court also restrained a where she was found dead on panel has also concluded that raised on the veracity of claims that a 2008 Mumbai attack-style rule out questioning Tharoor Islamabad High Court's (IHC) judicial magistrate from proceed- January 17 last year. Sunanda did not have cardiac operation had been foiled. There are also reports claiming that the soon, saying “whatever necessary order and admitted the ing on the bail application of 54- A senior official said a Delhi problem. She was not suffering boat was involved in smuggling. Government's appeal against the year-old Lakhvi filed against him will be done” to solve the case. Police team had visited a hospi- from any diseases like hyperten- “When we file a case under Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar had earlier said that "cir- suspension of LeT operational in a kidnapping case against till tal in in sion, diabetes or tuberculosis. cumstantial evidence" indicated that the occupants of the vessel commander Lakhvi's detention. the fresh verdict of the IHC.(PTI) Section 302 of IPC, it means we on December 2 last year The panel has concluded that have prima facie reasons to believe were "suspected or possible terrorists" and that they were in touch where Sunanda was admitted Sunanda was neither ill nor had with Pakistani maritime officials and Army. that it is a case of murder,” Bassi days before she was found dead. any disease prior to her death. She told reporters on being asked Asked about a letter written by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash “The team met the doctors was a normal healthy individual, Singh Badal to his five counterparts seeking premature release of whether police have any evidence who had treated Pushkar and the AIIMS report given to Delhi that it was a case of murder. 13 convicted terrorists, the Home Minister said he would discuss questioned them about the ail- Police in September said. the issue with Badal.(PTI) Asked why the murder case ment she was admitted there for The medical board had exam- was registered almost a year after and asked them to share her ined all the injuries on her body Sunanda’s death, Bassi said the medical records,” said a senior out of which ‘injury number 10’ final medical report from AIIMS police official. was termed as a mark caused by warranted filing of the FIR so that Pushkar was admitted to the needle of a syringe. Sunanda’s viscera samples can be Kerala Institute of Medical The team has also dismissed sent abroad for further tests. Sciences in Thiruvananthapuram the theory that Sunanda died of an “We have formed an SIT to last year between January 12-14, overdose of Alprazolam as the probe the case. The SIT has 2014. She was found dead in the viscera report is negative for the formed an action plan to go five-star hotel in Delhi three days presence of the substance.(PTI) about the case and everything later. will be done as per it,” he said. Her family had said that she Delhi Police had yesterday was suffering from lupus and registered a murder case into was taking heavy medication. Sunanda’s death under Section However, AIIMS doctors said 302 of the IPC on the basis of an that she was not suffering from AIIMS medical report that con- lupus and that she was a healthy cluded that her death was unnat- individual. ural and due to poisoning, but The AIIMS medical board nobody has been named as a had, in its second report submit-