Even low-level staff can fudge evidence

Amid reports of vaginal swabs of Noida murder victim Aarushi Talwar being substituted with those of an unidentified woman, a senior former police officer has said even a lower-level employee having the keys to the storage room could "easily manipulate" the medical evidence. "For manipulating the stomach wash, viscera or other slides at post-mortem room or government laboratories, one does not have to be influential," Deputy Superintendent of Police (retd) K K Gautam said. "A class four employee who has the keys of the storage room can easily manipulate the medical evidence. Moreover due to improper storage system, slides or other test items get mixed up unknowingly too," he said. There was a feeling among some locals that the CBI probe into Aarushi-Hemraj case were reaching a dead end and that some "influential person" was behind the fudging of evidence. "As CBI is still considering the three servants as main accused, the question arises are they powerful enough to influence the police or doctor? I strongly feel some influential person has manipulated the medical evidence," All India Women's Conference representative Raksha Shukla said. General Secretary of NGO Noida Lok Manch, Mahesh Saksena, also felt "some influential persons who did not wish the case to be solved manipulated the medical evidence."

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