<p>A court in Maharashtra’s Nagpur has rejected an application by the police seeking a narco analysis test on the estranged husband of Sana Khan, a missing local BJP functionary who is presumed murdered, an official said.</p>.<p>Five people, including Khan’s husband Amit Sahu alias Pappu, have been arrested in connection with the case.</p>.Sana Khan murder case: Police say she was used as 'honey-trap' in sextortion ring run by husband.<p>The Judicial Magistrate First Class on Friday rejected the application for a narco test after Sahu refused to give his consent for it, the official said.</p>.<p>According to a Supreme Court ruling of 2010, the use of narco analysis, brain mapping and polygraph tests on the accused, suspected and witnesses to a crime, without their consent, is unconstitutional and violates their right against self-incrimination.</p>.<p>Sana, alias Heena Khan, a functionary of the BJP minority cell, had gone to the house of her estranged husband Sahu in Jabalpur of Madhya Pradesh on August 2 after a fight over the phone with him.</p>.<p>She went missing then and a probe that began on August 5 zeroed in on Sahu and his associates for allegedly killing her and disposing of her body.</p>.<p>While the police have registered a murder case and arrested five people, including Sahu, they are yet to find her body despite an exhaustive search operation spanning four weeks.</p>.<p>The police were seeking to conduct a narco test on Sahu hoping to get additional insights into the disposal of the BJP functionary’s body, the official added.</p>
<p>A court in Maharashtra’s Nagpur has rejected an application by the police seeking a narco analysis test on the estranged husband of Sana Khan, a missing local BJP functionary who is presumed murdered, an official said.</p>.<p>Five people, including Khan’s husband Amit Sahu alias Pappu, have been arrested in connection with the case.</p>.Sana Khan murder case: Police say she was used as 'honey-trap' in sextortion ring run by husband.<p>The Judicial Magistrate First Class on Friday rejected the application for a narco test after Sahu refused to give his consent for it, the official said.</p>.<p>According to a Supreme Court ruling of 2010, the use of narco analysis, brain mapping and polygraph tests on the accused, suspected and witnesses to a crime, without their consent, is unconstitutional and violates their right against self-incrimination.</p>.<p>Sana, alias Heena Khan, a functionary of the BJP minority cell, had gone to the house of her estranged husband Sahu in Jabalpur of Madhya Pradesh on August 2 after a fight over the phone with him.</p>.<p>She went missing then and a probe that began on August 5 zeroed in on Sahu and his associates for allegedly killing her and disposing of her body.</p>.<p>While the police have registered a murder case and arrested five people, including Sahu, they are yet to find her body despite an exhaustive search operation spanning four weeks.</p>.<p>The police were seeking to conduct a narco test on Sahu hoping to get additional insights into the disposal of the BJP functionary’s body, the official added.</p>