Naba Das Murder: Accused Cop Stopped Medicine To Escalate Anger Against Odisha Minister

Bhubaneswar: Dismissed policeman Gopal Das, accused of killing Odisha Health Minister Naba Kishore Das, reportedly claimed that he had stopped taking medication for bipolar disorder for the last over two months.

The former assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police was reported to have discontinued medication in order to build up his anger against the senior leader. Gopal was stated to have stuck to the personal enmity angle for the crime, sources said.

This was among the information obtained during the lie-detection test and narco-analysis test of the lone accused carried out at the Directorate of Forensic Sciences in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar, they said.

Gopal was taken to Gandhinagar by a team of the Crime Branch of Odisha police which is probing the sensational murder case. Crime Branch ADG Arun Bothra and DSP R C Dora are monitoring the probe in the case.

Sources close to the development were quotes by TOI as saying that Gopal was taken to Gujarat specifically to get the “right” version of his motive behind the crime.

Gopal has maintained ‘personal enmity’ and differences with the Minister as the reasons for the extreme step he took on January 29. Narco-analysis test was required as he kept changing his statements earlier, they said.

The narco-analysys test was conducted on the dismissed police official on Saturday after a thorough medical examination and two rounds of polygraph tests of the accused in last two days. While the first round of polygraph test of Gopal was conducted at the Directorate of Forensic Science in Gandhinagar on Thursday, another round was carried out on Friday.

However, details of the findings during polygraph and narco-analysys tests are yet to be revealed by the investigators. The veracity of claims made earlier that Gopal was on medication for bipolar disorder is being being verified, while the CB sleuths have reportedly got the sequence of events on January 29 that led to the crime, the sources claimed.

The CB which had taken Gopal to Gujarat on February 8 is likely to bring him back on Sunday. It has taken him on remand for five days for detailed investigation and tests following permission from the court.

Though Gopal had reportedly confessed to have killed the minister, the CB was yet to ascertain why he did so. In order to ascertain the motive behind the crime, the investigating agency conducted the tests.

Earlier, a team from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory, New Delhi, had conducted a forensic psychological assessment and layered voice analysis test of Gopal at Jharsuguda.