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This story is from July 14, 2020

Voice samples hold key to Rajasthan horse-trading case: SOG

Voice samples of the duo arrested by the Special Operations Group for alleged horse-trading of Congress MLAs in Rajasthan will be collected and matched with recordings of an intercepted phone conversation in which they are purportedly heard discussing the possibility of a BJP government in the state and a position in the Union cabinet for Sachin Pilot, officials said.
Voice samples hold key to Rajasthan horse-trading case: SOG
JAIPUR: Voice samples of the duo arrested by the Special Operations Group for alleged horse-trading of Congress MLAs in Rajasthan will be collected and matched with recordings of an intercepted phone conversation in which they are purportedly heard discussing the possibility of a BJP government in the state and a position in the Union cabinet for Sachin Pilot, officials said.
The two accused, identified as Ashok Singh Chouhan from Udaipur and Bharat Malani from Ajmer, were produced in court on Monday and remanded in judicial custody.
They had been picked up from Udaipur and Ajmer on Friday night after the SOG intercepted their mobile conversation.
Additional director general Ashok Rathore (SOG and ATS) said, "On interrogating them, we found out that they had been in touch with others as well. We will send teams to those locations to substantiate the findings so far."
Investigators suspect the two of them were part of a larger network.
The duo's phone conversations came under surveillance on June 13 after the SOG learnt from a source that they might be linked to a mafia dealing in arms and explosives. It transpired that they could be involved in horse-trading as well.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has, meanwhile, started a preliminary investigation into alleged horse-trading by three independent MLAs who had been denied tickets by BJP and Congress to contest the 2018 polls.
The MLAs – Om Prakash Hudla (Mahuwa), Khushveer Singh (Marwar Junction) and Suresh Tak (Kishangarh) – have yet to be interrogated.
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