Rahul case: CFSL confirms heroin in pouch

The pouch was one of the five things handed over by the police to CFSL for examination.

The white powder pouch handed over to the Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory by the Delhi Police, probing the Rahul Mahajan case, contained heroin.

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"The 1 inch by 1.5 inch red pouch handed over on June 2 contains heroin," a CFSL communiqué to the Delhi Police said on Monday.

The pouch was one of the five things handed over by the police to CFSL for examination.

Besides the packet, two torn pieces of clothes belonging to Vivek Moitra and Rahul and two samples of stomach wash of the two, collected by the police from the Apollo hospital, were also handed over to the CFSL for examination.