Agency sources said they were now looking for the alleged mastermind of the murder - Indra Bishnoi (sister of Congress MLA Malkhan Singh) - and a member of Bishna Ram's gang, identified as Ashok. The sources said that some of the political leaders in the state were aware of the conspiracy to murder her.
One of the accused had told the CBI that her watch was also dumped in the canal, prompting the agency to seek help of the Rajasthan government in stopping the water flow to enable the investigators with the state police to look for the evidence. Sources also added that Bhanwari had been strangulated and later burnt. Her ashes along with belongings were dumped in the nearby Rajiv Gandhi canal.
CBI sources said Bhanwari's son Sahil (18) was called to the agency's camp office at Jodhpur Circuit House and was shown the recovered articles, out of which he identified at least four.
Around 35 divers were involved in an extensive search in the canal for the past four days and they had recovered several articles including a gunny bag, a wrist watch, a toe ring, nose pin, broken pieces of jewellery (including a pendant), charred bone pieces, five teeth, a wooden bat and two country-made pistols apart from some clothes (which reportedly belong to accused Kailash Jakhar).
