Canadian lab to help in murder case

In a boost to the 2003 Dr Asha Goel murder case, a Mumbai crime branch official is likely to collect forensic reports from an Ontario laboratory in Canada that may trace the DNA sample of the victim on the accused person’s clothes.

This is probably the only case apart from 26/11 terror attack case where a foreign laboratory has helped the Mumbai police.

Since the victim was a Canadian citizen, the chief coroner, Ontario, had agreed to assist the Mumbai police with Mitochondrial DNA analysis (a facility not available in India).  Asha was allegedly bludgeoned to death in her brother, Suresh Goel’s Malabar hill flat on August 23, 2003. The crime branch in 2005 arrested three accused, including a relative of the victim, Narendra Goel.