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Moninder Singh Pandher leaves the Civil Hospital in Gandhinagar on Tuesday.

GANDHINAGAR: The most crucial narco-analysis test of Moninder Singh Pandher, one of the accused in the Noida serial murder, was taken up at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) here on Tuesday.

The FSL sources said though Moninder, who was released from the Gandhinagar civil hospital in the morning after a nightlong vigil to check his blood sugar, was taken for the test around 2 p.m., the actual operation could start only after two hours as he had developed some complications. The civil surgeon and other medical officers from the civil hospital were called at the FSL for checking his condition after which the test started on Moninder.

The narco-analysis test on his servant, Surendra Koli, the other accused in the case, was completed on Monday and it is not clear if he was put under any other test on Tuesday. The FSL had completed lie detector and brain fingerprinting tests on the duo on Sunday. During the narco-analysis test conducted under "truth serum," Moninder, it is learnt, was asked questions to corroborate what Surendra Koli revealed during his narco-analysis test.

For the last two nights, Moninder was being taken to the civil hospital every evening for checking his blood sugar level before he could be put under narco analysis test as he was a highly diabetic patient. The two are likely to be taken back to Noida on Wednesday for producing before the court for further police remand as their present remand is due to expire in the evening. In case the tests remained incomplete, they would be brought back to the Gandhinagar FSL.

No official word was available about the alleged confession of the duo's involvement in the serial murder or any connection in the organ trade or alleged cannibalism. J.M. Vyas, FSL director, on being repeatedly questioned by the mediapersons, made it clear that it was too early to draw any conclusion about their alleged confession.

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