High Court reserves order on bail petition in Dey case

The bench of Justice R R Prasad reserved the order after the state government submitted the narco-analysis test report of the accused Singh before the court. Sources here indicated to Business Standard that the narco-analysis test report mentioned that Singh knew about the plot to murder plot the shoe baron Ashish Dey.

However, details of the report were not released officially during the bail proceedings.

The Jamshedpur police had made Singh a co-accused in the case after one of the accused Jitendra Kumar Singh, alias Papu Don, had admitted the involvement of Singh during his narco-analysis test.

The counsel for the petitioner (Singh) argued that his client had undergone narco-analysis tests twice in Ahmadabad and Bangalore but nothing had come out from the reports to prove Singh's involvement in Dey's murder.

The counsel alleged that police was unnecessarily harrassing his client.

Just two days after the filing of the charge-sheet by Jamshedpur police on the murder of Dey, four assailants came on two motorcycles to the residence of slain shoe baron's house at Aam Bagan in Jamshedpur on May 16 this year and started firing indiscriminately at the front entrance of Dey's residence.

They did this despite the presence of carbine-armed guards and policemen at the house, who also did not respond or fire back. A few bullets hit the windows of the house. However, there were no casualties in the May 16 shootout.