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No evidence of stone-throwing, says forensic lab

Special Correspondent

"Car's windshield not broken within hospital premises."

AHMEDABAD: The Forensic Science Laboratory, Gandhinagar, has found "no evidence of stone-throwing" on the car of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad when he visited the SSG hospital in Vadodara to meet the victims of the Sabarmati Express accident at Samalaya station on April 21.

In its first and preliminary report submitted to the Vadodara police on Wednesday evening, the FSL experts said some water pouches were hurled at the car but no stones "or any other hard objects" were thrown towards the vehicle, according to the Vadodara Police Commissioner, Deepak Swaroop.

The FSL based its preliminary report on video CDs on the incident made available to it from various sources and its own "field observations." It is yet to send its report on the car that was brought to Gandhinagar for scrutiny last week.

`No traces'

The report said the windshield of Mr. Prasad's car was not broken within the hospital premises. In its "microscopic observations" up to the gate of the SSG hospital, the experts found no trace of the broken windshield.

Mr. Prasad had shown the damaged windshield to mediapersons at the Vadodara airport when he was returning to Delhi and said it was broken when Sangh Parivar activists hurled stones at him in the hospital.

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