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EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 25: The probe in double rape and murder of two women in South Kashmir district of Shopian is headed for blind ends –one after the other.
Close to heels of tampering of vaginal swabs coming to fore, the examining authorities have said that the hair strands recovered from the Police van did not match the DNA of victims or the accused cops. This has come as another roadblock in the probe as the DNA analysis of hair recovered from a police van did not match with either of the victims or the police officials arrested in connection with the case.
The hair was recovered by the Special Investigating Team constituted by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court from a police vehicle, from which cries of women were heard on May 29, as claimed by two witnesses before a magistrate.
The SIT was directed by the high court to send the hair for DNA analysis and find out whether it matched with the victims or the four police officials, including the then superintendent of police Javed Mattoo, arrested in connection with the case.
The Central Forensic Science Laboratory stated that the DNA of hair neither matched with the two women -- Aaseya (17) and Nilofar (22) -- allegedly raped and murdered in Shopian, nor with any of the police officials accused in the case, official sources said on Tuesday.
Earlier, this month, the probe came to a standstill when it came to light that key forensic evidence comprising the slides of the vaginal swabs did not match with the victims.
The Special Investigating Team headed by Farooq Ahmed, at present inspector general of police (Kashmir), had sent these to CFSL for making a DNA profile of the tissue cells present in slides.
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