Thaindian News

Jodhpur, Nov 5 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has rushed a team to Rajasthan’s Ajmer city following reports that missing nurse Bhanwari Devi had a bank locker there and an alleged CD showing her in a compromising position with sacked Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna could have been hidden in it, police said Saturday.

In one of the two audio clips which surfaced Thursday and Friday, Bhanwari Devi mentions about a CD hidden in a bank locker in Ajmer.

“A team has gone to Ajmer to investigate the lead further. Information regarding some property belonging to Bhanwari Devi at prime locations in Ajmer is also being verified,” a senior police officer, who did not want to be named, said.

Bhanwari Devi had gone missing from Jodhpur’s Bilara area Sep 1. Maderna was sacked from the cabinet by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Oct 16 over allegations that he had a role in her disappearance after she started blackmailing him on the basis of a CD showing both in a compromising position.

The audio clip which surfaced Thursday has Bhanwari Devi in a telephonic conversation allegedly with legislator Malkhan Singh’s sister Indra in Rajasthani dialect. Another audio clip had her speaking with Sohan Lal Vishnoi, a suspect in her kidnapping, who has been arrested by the police.

The CBI had earlier also stumbled upon clues suggesting that Bhanwari Devi was blackmailing some politicians in Rajasthan on the basis of CDs which showed them in compromising positions with her.

Meanwhile, the CBI produced Shahabuddin, a key suspect in her kidnapping, in a court here Saturday. He was sent to judicial custody.

Shahabuddin, a resident of Pipad area here and a mechanic by profession, surrendered in a CBI special court Oct 22. He is alleged to be the executor of the kidnapping conspiracy.