Polygraph tests for 10

Staff Reporter MUMBAI: The Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has subjected around 10 to 11 suspects for polygraph and brain mapping tests. Kenneth Haywood, the American whose Internet Protocol address was used to send a terror e-mail on the day of the Ahmedabad blasts was one of them. There is a likelihood that some members from the banned outfit Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) were among those who tested. These tests will only “aid the investigation and not replace it,” ATS chief Hemant Karkare told reporters on Thursday. Each test is three to four hours long. Conducted by experts, they comprise an ingenious method of questioning. Questions on name, occupation and the like are interspersed with pointed ones, Mr. Karkare said. While the tests are the fare of regular police investigations, inconclusive preliminary... [read full story]