A special court here on Thursday allowed the Delhi police to obtain the consent of AIADMK (Amma) deputy general secretary T.T.V. Dhinakaran for taking his voice sample in the Election Commission bribery case.
“As the consent of accused [Dhinakaran] is required for voice matching with the alleged voice of accused contained in the CD, I deem it expedient in the interest of justice to allow the investigating officer [IO] to take requisite steps to obtain consent of accused for giving his voice sample for comparison from CFSL, CBI Lodhi Road, here with alleged voice of accused contained in the CD,” Special Judge Poonam Chaudhry said in the order.
The police had sought permission of the court to take the consent of Dhinakaran and his co-accused Sukesh Chandrashekar to match their voices with those contained in the CD recovered during the investigation.
Dhinakaran had challenged the maintainability of the plea, while Chandrashekar had refused to give his consent. Counsel for Dhinakaran argued that there was no provision in Cr.PC which permitted the investigating officer to move an application in the court during the pendency of the investigation to obtain voice sample of an accused. The court could not entertain the police’s plea as it could not interfere in the course of investigation, Dhinakaran’s counsel further submitted.
