Panaji, Jan 4 (TOI): Goa police's crime branch has written to Gujarat forensic science laboratory (GSFL), Gandhinagar, to seek an appointment to conduct a lie detector test on Darryl Vaz, who was along with social activist Bismarque Dias on the night he went missing.

Speaking to TOI, a senior police officer attached to the crime branch, said that they have not sought any specific date. "It is up to them to tell us when they will give us an appointment to conduct a lie-detector test. We are waiting for their reply," the officer added.

On December 8, the judicial magistrate first class (JMFC) Panaji, has allowed the crime branch to conduct a lie detector test on Vaz.

On December 21, the justice juvenile board (JJB) had rejected the crime branch application to conduct a lie-detector test on a minor boy.

Recently, Goa police had received the report from the central forensic science laboratory (CFSL), Hyderabad, which said that there were no blood stains on the vest suspected to be that of Dias.
Last month, the CFSL in its diatom test report ruled out any foul play. Before that the Hyderabad-based lab had not found any suspicious material in the viscera of Dias. Crime branch, which had received all three test reports from CFSL and all the reports, reiterate the police investigation that Dias died due to accidental drowning, police said.

On November 6, Bismarque went missing after he allegedly went for a swim at night with two persons, Darryl Vaz and a minor boy, from St Estevam. His body was found floating in a rivulet near the sluice gate at St Estevam island on the following day.