By IANS
New Delhi : A Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader, arrested for his suspected role in the murder of a woman opposing land acquisition for the Tata Motors' car plant at Singur in West Bengal, Thursday refused to undergo a lie detector test in a Delhi court.
"I do not want to undergo any polygraph test," Suhrid Baran Dutta, CPI-M's zonal committee secretary from Singur, told Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kamini Lau during an in-chamber proceeding.
Dutta refused to expresses his willingness to undergo the test despite Lau cautioning him that his refusal may lead the court to draw adverse inference against him during the trial.
The communist leader, however, did not budge from his stand.
Dutta and his party colleague Debu Mallik were arrested June 30 by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for their alleged role in the murder of Tapasi Mallik at Tata Motors' car plant site Dec 18 last year.
A court at Chandanagore in West Bengal had allowed the CBI to take Dutta to Delhi for conducting a polygraph test on him. Dutta has to be produced in the Chandanagore court by July 12.
The CBI had arrested the communist leader after Debu Mallik confessed that Dutta too was involved in hatching the murder conspiracy.
Tapasi was in the movement launched by the Trinamool Congress against the acquisition of farmland for the Tata project. Her charred body was found Dec 18. She was also allegedly raped before being killed.