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"Narco test is rape of mind"

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CHENNAI: While identifying and isolating the `Noida killers' from society is a must, subjecting them to narcoanalysis test "is nothing but rape of their mind," P. Chandra Sekharan, forensic scientist, has said.

The test on the killers was bound to mislead the police and put them on the wrong track of investigation, Dr. Sekharan, former Director of the Forensic Sciences Department, Tamil Nadu, said in a statement on Saturday.

It was a well-tested and documented fact that inveterate criminal psychopaths would lie under the influence of drugs, while the relatively normal and well-adjusted individuals might also successfully disguise factual data. Even under the best conditions, these tests could result in an output contaminated by deception, fantasy and garbled speech, Dr. Sekharan said.

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