DGP Lohia’s suspicious murder; domestic help to undergo narco analysis test

STATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: The Special Crime Branch Wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police, investigating the Director General Prison Hemant Kumar Lohia’s suspicious murder case, is contemplating to have narco analysis test of the main accused Yasir Ahmad–the domestic help, alleged in the brutal killing.
Hemant Kumar Lohia was found murdered at the house of his friend in Udheywala area falling under the jurisdiction of Domana Police Station.

Reliable sources informed that the CB investigators have also got recorded the statement of the accused in the court under Section 164 IPC. He is reported to have given the consent, which is mandatory, for narco analysis.
Investigations, into the suspicious murder of Hemant Kumar Lohia, DG Prisons J&K, was transferred to the Special Crime Wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police.
On October 3, Lohia was found murdered in a house at Udheywala on Gajansoo Road near Baru Resort in Jammu on late Monday night. Yasir Ahmed, the 23-year-old domestic helper, was arrested after a massive manhunt by the J&K Police on October 4.
Lohia remained on central deputation for quite a long period but returned to Jammu-Kashmir in February 2022 in the rank of Additional Director General of Police and was posted as Commandant General in Home Guards/Civil Defence/ State Disaster Response Force (SDRF). Later, he was promoted to Director General of Police and was posted as DG Prisons in August 2022.
Examining the scene of crime with forensic experts, the officials said a torn belt was seen hanging from the ceiling and the explanation Yasir gave was that he had attempted suicide after killing DGP Lohia.
Yasir was also subjected to psychological examination as he seemed to have acted in a fit of rage after his expectation of a government job was not fulfilled.
The main accused Yasir emerged as the key suspect in the murder as he was found missing from the scene of the crime and later CCTV footage showed him running away from the house using the backdoor.
The accused also attempted to burn the body of the officer by throwing a burning pillow, attracting the attention of the family and his guards who rushed and broke open the door.
The accused attempted suicide after killing the officer but the belt which he had tied around his neck snapped under his weight. Marks of the belt were found on his neck as well.
Mapping activities of Yasir, a school dropout, when he had fled from his ancestral village, officials said that he had been working with a senior IAS officer as a cook and joined at the house of Lohia’s friend about six months ago.
After leaving the residence of the senior IAS officer, he had worked in the garden at a senior IPS officer for a day before being kicked out from there.
The officials quoting the team of doctors claimed that though the accused was medically normal he often had bouts of anger and had violent behavioural tendencies and had been suffering from acute depression.
He was also questioned about his personal diary in which he had written “I hate my life” and “Dear death I am waiting for you”, besides scribbling an entire song of Bollywood movie Aashiqi 2 — “Bhula dena mujhe, hai alvida tujhe” (forget me as I bid you a final goodbye) — in which the lyrics talk about separation and final goodbye.
It seemed, according to the investigators, the school dropout was fed up with life.
In Hindi and broken English, he has also written in his diary one-line sentences like: “I want restart My life”, “Zindagi to bas taklif deti hai, sukoon to maut hi deti hai (life only hurts, death brings peace), and “every day starts with expectation but ends with bad experience”.
He wrote he was “99 per cent sad” in his life but wore a “fake smile 100 per cent”.
“I am 10 per cent happy, having zero per cent love in life and 90 per cent tension in life. I hate my life which only gives pain and waiting for death to restart my life,” he wrote.
Working on all the theories, the Special Crime Branch team decided to get the Naroc test conducted to get more clarification on certain queries, raised from many quarters.
Experts say, “Narco test involves the injection of a drug, sodium pentothal, which induces a hypnotic or sedated state in which the subject’s imagination is neutralised, and they are expected to divulge true information.” These tests are conducted in FSL Chandigarh or FSL Hyderabad.