Court to hear CBI plea for lie detection on Raju on Apr 1

The XIV additional chief metropolitan court posted the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) plea seeking the court's permission to subject Satyam founder Ramalinga Raju and two others to lie detection test to April 1.

The defence counsel were supposed to file the counter on Saturday but sought time from the court till Wednesday. The counter would be filed and the matter would be heard on the same day.

The CBI, which is now probing the Rs 7,800 crore financial scam at Satyam, first filed a petition before the magistrate for a polygraph (lie detection) against Ramalinga Raju, his brother B Rama Raju and the company's former chief financial officer Srinivas Vadlamani on March 24 but the matter was posted for today.

The CBI counsel said that the accused were not forthright in their replies during the interrogation. The CBI questioned all the five accused including Price Waterhouse auditors S Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri from March 10 to 17. It later sought two more days to interrogate Raju brothers and the former chief financial officer.