Wilson can’t rely on Arsenal report seeking to quash chargesheet: NIA

The agency opposes contention that electronic evidence gathered by it was planted

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) told the Bombay High Court on Wednesday that the Arsenal Consultancy report alleging that evidence against Rona Wilson, an accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, was planted could be taken up during the trial and this could not be a ground for seeking quashing of the chargesheet. Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh, representing the NIA, told a Division Bench of Justices S.S. Shinde and N.J. Jamadar that the entire petition relying upon a report by an American private laboratory and calling the NIA evidence unreliable and fabricated could not be accepted at this stage. He opposed Mr. Wilson’s contention that all the electronic evidence gathered by the NIA was planted and an attacker planted malware in Mr. Wilson’s computer and that it was compromised.