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Clean chit to Reliance officials in Borge's death case

Railway police gave clean chit to three officials of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) whose statements were recorded in connection with the death of Airworks technician Bharat Borge.

Updated on: May 1, 2009, 15:15:23 IST
PTI | By , Mumbai
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Railway police on Friday gave clean chit to three officials of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) whose statements were recorded in connection with the death of Airworks technician Bharat Borge.

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These officials had met Borge at the Airworks hanger in Kalina on Monday, a day before he was found dead on the railway tracks.

"We do not suspect the role of these officers in influencing Borge or leading to his death. They just casually met him and spoke to him," Prakash Sawant, assistant commissioner of police, Government Railway Police,said.

Borge was the technician who found pebbles and gravels in the fuel tank of industrialist Anil Ambani's helicopter.

"In fact, the trio had appreciated Borge after they came to know that he was the person to have discovered pebbles and gravels in the fuel tank of helicopter", the officer said.

The ADAG officials who were given clean chit are security officer and former DGP, K K Kashyap, retired assistant commissioner of police Shailesh Kale and the company's aviation security officer and Retired Wing Commander Sawla.

A letter, purported to have been written by Borge, was found on the Airworks technician’s person in which he alleged that Reliance officials had met him and taken down his telephone number.

Borge wrote that he felt he was being 'used' and the crime branch probe in the sabotage of Ambani's helicopter was "in right direction."

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