The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday moved an application in a lower court here seeking early hearing on its pending application over conducting a polygraph test on certain JNU students in connection with the disappearance of Najeeb Ahmed.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Deepak Sherawat took the application on record and posted it for hearing on Tuesday.
The probe agency filed the application after the Delhi High Court earlier in the day directed it to move the CMM court for an early hearing of the pending plea. The CMM had earlier scheduled the plea on January 24 near for hearing.
The HC also said that even the family members of the missing student could undergo the polygraph test, not just the suspects.
The court had on May 16 transferred the investigation of the case from the Delhi Police to the CBI.
Earlier, the students had opposed a Delhi Police application seeking permission of the court to conduct lie detection test on them.
They had argued that there was no provision under the Criminal Procedure Code whereby the court of a magistrate could direct any person to undergo lie detector test or direct him or her to record consent or refusal for it.
