Mangaluru, Aug 31: Mangaluru city police will conduct a polygraph test on Aditya Rao, accused of planting explosives at Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) earlier this year.
ACP (north) Belliappa K U, who heads the investigation, said that the polygraph test will be held at Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL, Bengaluru) on September 2.
Rao, who had escaped after planting the bag of explosives near the flight ticket counter of the airport on January 20, 2020, surrendered at the office of Director General and Inspector General Police in Bengaluru on January 22 after admitting to the act.
Belliappa said that as part of the investigation, police had requested a polygraph test on Rao, and the court granted the same. The test identification parade for accused Rao, who is currently lodged at Mangaluru district jail, was held a few months ago.
On June 11, Mangaluru police filed a 700-page charge-sheet. According to the charge-sheet, the bag that was placed near MIA entrance had a well-made real bomb, as per the FSL report.
Rao, an engineer and management graduate, had learnt bomb-making through online videos and had prepared it in less than two weeks.
He had procured bomb raw material from Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra through an e-commerce giant. He had also purchased cyanide from Tamil Nadu, while the other raw materials were locally sourced.
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