Bhanwari's watch, necklace beads recovered from canal

Sat Jan 07 2012, 14:26 hrs In Jodhpur:
In a major breakthrough, the CBI has found a watch of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi in a canal near here, a crucial evidence, which corroborates the statement of an accused who claimed that she was strangulated and the body later burnt before her last remains were dumped in the canal.
Besides the watch, beads of a necklace belonging to the 36-year-old woman were also recovered by the agency team, CBI sources said.
The agency is expecting to get more evidences, including her body remains, from the canal to aid in its probe, they said.
Two country-made pistols and a wooden bat were recovered yesterday from the Rajiv Gandhi Canal in Jaloda village, about 150 km from Jodhpur. The Rajasthan government has stopped water supply to the canal to enable CBI to locate the remains of the nurse.
The agency sleuths are also examining soil samples from the spot near the canal for evidences.