Cops give clean chit to ADAG officials in Borge case

Railway police today 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.      

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

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 also found on his 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." "We have verified with the Reliance employees that they met Borge briefly after being introduced to him as the person who found the pebbles in the fuel tank region of the helicopter," GRP Commissioner (Mumbai) A K Sharma said.      I
t was also verified that none of them had made any calls to Borge prior to his death on Tuesday morning, he said.     
"There is no evidence so far to suggest any abatement to his death and even his phone records of the day when he died, show nothing suspicious," Sharma said.      
The police is also awaiting the report of the Forensic Science Laboratory on the viscera of Borge. The preliminary post-mortem report had indicated he died of multiple fractures and injuries sustained.      
The GRP has recorded statements of three eye witnesses, the porters who carried his body, the station master, a neighbour who served food to him, his brother, some Air Works employees and the three ADAG employees.      
They will also be recording the statement of the Crime Branch officer to whom Borge had addressed his letter that was found with his body.      
"Investigations are still on in the case and we will be corroborating all the statements and verifying them," Sharma said, adding that if required they could call witnesses including the ADAG employees to record statements again.