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Voice not Salman Khan's: forensic probe

"Voice sample of the two stars did not match with those in the audiotape"

Aishwarya Rai

MUMBAI: In a major relief for Bollywood actor Salman Khan, forensic tests have indicated that the voice in the audio tape threatening actress Aishwarya Rai and boasting of his underworld connections is not Khan's, a senior Mumbai police official said here on Friday.

The Forensic Science Laboratory at Chandigarh, where the controversial tape was sent for checking the veracity, said that the voice samples of the two stars did not match with the voices in the controversial tape as reported by a national daily in July this year.

"We received the report two days ago, and it says that the voice samples of the stars do not match with the tape," Additional Police Commissioner, K.L. Bishnoi, said.

In the alleged tape, voices similar to Salman and Aishwarya in conversation, showed Salman flaunting his links with the underworld and claiming that he had prior knowledge of the 1992 bomb blasts of Mumbai.

Salman Khan

After the exposure in the daily, the State Government had ordered an inquiry to probe if the voices were those of Salman and Aishwarya, if the alleged tape was leaked from the electronic surveillance data of the Mumbai police, and if Salman had prior knowledge of the blasts.

Mr. Bishnoi admitted that once the laboratory concluded that the voice samples did not match, the probe into the involvement of the two stars was almost complete.

Salman's family happy

Mr. Khan's family has expressed happiness over the findings of the probe.

"We are very happy and relieved,'' Salman's father Salim Khan said. Asked whether the family would take action against the daily that had carried a report in this regard, he said: "Integrity in journalism profession has died. They can stoop down to any level and can write anything about anyone. It would be a futile exercise if we have to do anything against them as it was the work of some vested interests." — PTI

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