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NEW DELHI, July 20: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the narco-analysis of the police officers involved in the rape and murder of two women in Shopian town in Jammu & Kashmir. The bail of these officers will be considered on Friday.
The state has witnessed angry protests over the rape and murder of two women, 17-year-old Asiya Jan and her 22-year-old pregnant sister in-law Neelofar, in May. The protests left two people dead and around 400 injured. The government's initial insistence that the two had drowned further fuelled the protests.
Earlier this month, the J&K government finally admitted that certain police officers were involved in the rape and murder of the two women.
Blood samples of four policemen arrested for alleged destruction, dissipation and suppression of evidence were collected over the weekend.
Official sources said the samples were taken from the then Shopian police superintendent Javed Iqbal, deputy superintendent of police Rohit Baskotra, station house officer Shafeeq Ahmad and sub-inspector Qazi Abdul Karim.
The blood samples of the policemen, currently under police custody, were taken on the directions of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court which earlier this week had ordered the arrest, preparation of DNA profiles and narco-analysis of the four suspended police officers.
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