The Kohefiza police station in-charge Dharmendra Tomar accepted that police officials made calls from Shehla Masood's phone after she had been murdered, and that senior officers are to be held responsible for not checking her car properly.
"We wanted to know who's body was it and the easiest way was to make call from the mobile phone found with the victim. We wanted to know the number and we made calls to know the number of phone. Through that number we tracked her identity. Our intention was not malafide. We did not tempered with data," claimed Tomar.
Shehla's phone was taken into custody by Bhopal police from the scene of crime on August 16 itself and her phone records show that someone was making calls from her phone at 6.46 PM almost six hours after she was shot dead. Calls were also made from her phone on August 17 as well.
Three calls were made from Shehla's phone on August 17 while two of them were made to a 'panwalla' (beetle leaf seller) in Mandla. One of the calls was local.
Phone records available also show that someone from Uganda was trying to get in touch with her hours after she was killed.
The RTI activist was murdered outside her house in Bhopal on August 16 between 11.20 and 11.50 AM while she was preparing to take part in an anti-corruption rally in support of Anna Hazare.
Police had formed five teams to investigate the matter but surprisingly none of these team could find Shehla's pendent and files which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials found in her car after they were handed the case and started their probe.
Was any action taken against the police officers who tampered with her phone or was it just reported and forgotten ?
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