Press Trust of India
- That’s about Rahul Mahajan; in Vivek Maitra’s case, forensic tests revealed traces of alcohol too
NEW DELHI, Jun 17: Bolstering the police case against Rahul Mahajan, a forensic report has concluded that the samples of gastric lavage (stomach wash) and vomit stains found on his clothes showed presence of heroin and cocaine. The report did not mention any traces of alcohol consumption.
Sources said the report by the Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory (CFSL) was handed over to the Delhi Police on Friday.
Rahul, who was released on bail on Wednesday, had on Thursday denied taking drugs and alleged that there was a ‘hidden agenda’ at work against him.
The CFSL examined stomach wash and vomit samples of both Rahul and his aide Vivek Maitra.
Sources said while the test report of Rahul showed presence of the two psychotropic substances, the gastric lavage of Maitra showed traces of ethanol besides metabolites of heroin and cocaine.
The two gastric lavages were part of the five samples handed over to the CFSL on June 3 by the Delhi Police.
Earlier, CFSL sources said they had carried out mass spectro photometric test and Thin Layer Chromotographic (TLC) on the stained clothes of Rahul and Maitra during which it again found stains of the two psychotropic substances.
The Delhi Police had handed over an upper garment as well as an undergarment of the duo for examination.
A contents of a pouch recovered from Maitra's body, which was also handed over to the CFSL by the Delhi Police, has already been confirmed as heroin.
Following an alleged drug overdose, Maitra died in the early hours of June 2 while Rahul’s life was saved by doctors at Apollo Hospital.