Mumbai: With investigating agencies making no progress in solving the murder of Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare, “there is a need for specially trained investigators,” said Dabholkar’s son, Hamid. Further, the accused are radicalised, like the jihadis, and investigators do not have the expertise to crack them, he said..
Dr. Hamid Dabholkar’s affidavit, submitted at the Bombay High Court, talks about “radicalisation in the context of systematic training of the human mind to follow specific instructions in pursuance to a philosophy and even commit heinous crimes.”
The affidavit says radicalisation occurs when “people are fascinated with the idea of being part of a small brotherhood, which gives them a sense of cohesive strength and moral support.” The process of training starts with giving personal goals or a goal for cause the person believes in, which prepares him or her “to go beyond self-preservation”. “The process of training of the mind starts where the instructor keeps intonating a philosophy in the mind of a person. The entire process of doctrination involves programming the mind to think in a particular manner,” it says.
Also, the mind of the person is hammered with repetitive instructions so that after some time, the trained person commits himself to the cause and is even ready to sacrifice his life or take somebody’s life. This changes the configuration of neuro chemicals in the brain and a person trained thus will dodge answers in a very systematic manner. The entire process results in creation of psychological barriers in the individual’s brain. “Therefore, interrogation of such person becomes extremely difficult and requires specially trained interrogators,” it says.
On August 23, 2017, the HC said, “Investigating agencies cannot go on with the trial of the absconding accused in a traditional or orthodox manner and it is time that by using modern technology and skills, absconding accused can be traced as expeditiously as possible.”
Advocate Abhay Nevagi, who is appearing in the case at HC said, “There are pyschological barriers that need to be overcome while dealing with such accused and officials have to be trained in psychiatric skills. The National Investigating Agency and the Army have such investigators but till date, their assistance is not taken.”
FSA report
The forensic statement of analysis (FSA) report on the test conducted on Dr. Virendra Tawde, key conspirator in the Dabholkar’s murder, said, “He adopted a closed and guarded interaction style with the examiner. He did not want to disclose facts related to the incident (murder of Dabholkar).” Similarly, the FSA report of tests on Sameer Gaikwad, key accused in Mr. Pansare’s murder, said “he was hesitating during conversations and was anxious and restless.” The Hindu has copies of both the FSAs.
The FSA is an investigative technique used to examine a person’s words to detect concealed information, missing information and to ascertain whether the information is true or false.
The Tawde report said, “Several signs of deception were noticed from his activities, ie. broken eye contact, avoidance of direct answering, rubbing of hand and nose. He deliberately escaped from appropriate answer. On relevant issues, his responses reflected a complete fabrication. In most of the critical questions, he did not provide responses and became silent. He used defence mechanisms as rationalisation to show his innocence. The statements given by him seem to be inappropriate and indicate that he is concealing relevant information.”
The FSA report on Gaikwad, on the other hand, said, report says, “Asked about the activities of Pansare, he said in Hindi that, ‘he was anti-religion and was against the Sanathan Sanstha. His statements were found to contradict the ones given previously and when he was asked about the dispute between Sanathan and Pansare, he said, ‘We had differences with respect to religious activities but my organisation had no role to play in his death’.”
