How accurate were the unscientific processes conducted on Narayan Sai Ji?

Day in and out the media has continued to bombard us with biased news that has little credibility and stems basically from unfounded rumours and information released by the police. One should not forget that none of these has been proved in a court of law and whatever little detail of allegations and new updates we have should be taken with a pinch of salt. The reason why we cannot yet take these statements for granted is because of the unproven techniques that have been put to use.

Information that have been released by media post Saiji's grilling

Narayan Saiji was sent to police custody on 6th December, 2013 and he was relentlessly grilled by police. According to sources, he was put under the scanner for 15 to 16 hours at end each day! It will not be lost to you that a person subjected to such arduous process cannot be expected to be in his right frame of mind and hence anything said or done by such an individual is not usually accepted in a court of law. In the last seven days we have heard everything from Narayan SaiJi accepting his crimes to admitting about a love child to saying that he had sexual relationships with 8 other women!

We wonder what else the police wanted to hear from him. International scientists and experts on the matter have opined that subjects readily pick up hints from their interlocutors and answer in order to oblige!

Alison Winter, an expert in the history of modern medicine at the University of Chicago says "So someone who is drugged might make a false statement because he or she is responding to a deliberate or unconscious cue". This must be taken into consideration in case of SaiJi as well. He surely must have been under influence of drug and answering to please rather than anything else!

How narco tests fared in the past in India

Outcomes of Narco analysis tests can be summed up with one word - inconclusive. There are more misses for every success that has happened with the application of narcotics or truth serum or any of the myriad chemical concoction law enforcement officials  use on under-trails. Consider these:

1. 2004: Chhagan Bhujbal quit following allegations that were based on result of a narco test done on fake stamp paper case accused Abdul Karim Telgi. Police could not provide proof against Bhujbal and these allegations were dropped.

2. 2010: Aarushi Talwar Murder Case accused were subjected to these test, outcomes were inconclusive.

3. 2013: Jiah Khan suicide case. criminal lawyer Majeed Memon says, "This should not be encouraged, ... The facts of this case do not justify subjecting the accused to narco-analysis test and is undesirable."

Of course if you looked up hard you will find cases to support use of narcotic tests, but there is very little to encourage the court in accepting it as standalone evidence.