The wheels of justice in India turn slowly.
But Vancouver businessman Sanjay Goel is hopeful that one day his mother’s murder will be solved.
That day may not be too far in the offing as Indian media recently reported that six years after Sanjay’s mother Dr. Asha Goel, was murdered in Mumbai’s Malabar Hill while she was trying to solve a family dispute, the probe seems to be moving in the right direction. 
A final report on the lie-detection test conducted on one of the accused  - domestic helper Praveen Vatsa - has been submitted to police investigators who are seeking a court order to subject him to narco-analysis.
Narco-analysis is the use of psychoactive drugs to attempt to obtain information from an unwilling subject, a practice allowed by law in India.
Police told India media that Vatsa has filed an objection against the use of the so-called ‘truth drug’ on her after they determined that she had failed her lie detector test done by the The Bangalore Forensic Science laboratory.
In addition to this development in the six year old murder case, Indian cops last week also said they have now issued a red-corner notice through Interpol against Ottawa businessman Subhash Agarwal, who is the brother of the murdered doctor.
The case dates back to August 2003, when Dr. Goel, 62, who was the chief obstetrician at the Headwaters Health Centre in Orangeville, Ontario went to India to settle a family property dispute.
An obstetrician and gynecologist of 40 years who also practiced in Saskatchewan, Dr. Goel delivered more than 10,000 babies in Canada.
The family reportedly has vast properties worth about C$5 million in South Mumbai.
Dr. Goel had three brothers - Subhash from Ottawa, Suresh and Shekhar Agarwal who were settled in the United States.
Suresh Agrawal died weeks after his sister was killed in 2003.
Police allege that Dr. Goel was the victim of a family conspiracy hatched in Canada.
On August 23, 2003, a day before she was to return to Canada, she was found murdered at Sudhakar (a building on Malabar Hill). She was stabbed several times and her flat was ransacked to make it appear like a robbery.
Indian media earlier quoted police as having said that she “got wind of a conspiracy by her brother, Suresh, to usurp their ancestral properties in Mumbai.
“What angered Asha was Suresh’s plan to share 50 percent of the properties with a brother Subhash, who lives in Canada, but deny a share to another brother Shekhar, who lives in the United States.
“Asha (Goel) had initially not shown any interest in the Mumbai properties, but on learning that Shekhar was being sidelined, had fought with Suresh.
She was determined not to let Suresh and Subhash take over the properties if they were doing Shekhar out of his share,’’ media quoted police as saying.
Subash Agrawal’s wife has denied the charges in an earlier interview with the Asian Pacific Post.
“Somebody is framing him. There is not a whisper of evidence against my husband,” Agrawal’s wife said in a phone call.
The suspect’s wife also said that “somebody was paying police in India” to implicate her husband but she did not say who, except to claim that “there is a conspiracy.”
In his quest to find justice for his mother, Sanjay Goel and other family members have set up a website (www.ashagoel.ca) to gather support for the case.
At least 13,000 people from across North America, Europe and Africa have signed a petition urging the Canadian government to ensure that all avenues of investigation are pursued, and to “compel the Indian Government to commit the necessary resources to solve this case.”
So far Indian police have arrested five people, who they say were hired to do the killing. They were identified as Pradeep Parab, Pawankumar Goenka, Manohar Shinde, Narendra Goel and the domestic helper Vatsa.
Vatsa used to work at co-accused Narendra Goel’s residence (Narendra was the brother-in-law of one of the three Agarwal brothers).
Narendra Goel was also subjected to the truth drug, Indian police revealed, where he allegedly confessed to lying in interrogations.
He had originally produced an air ticket to support a claim that he was in New Delhi the day Dr. Goel was killed.
During narco-analysis, Narendra Goel said it was his domestic helper Vasta who had travelled to Delhi posing as him.
Mumbai joint commissioner of police (crime) Rakesh Maria told Indian media that he is hoping that the truth drug administered on Vasta will give police more evidence.
He confirmed that all the answers given by Vatsa in the lie detector test were false.
A hearing on Vasta’s objection to the narco-analysis is expected this week in Mumbai.
Last month, an Indian newspaper said that a Mumbai crime branch official was heading to Canada to collect forensic reports from an Ontario laboratory that may trace the DNA sample of the victim on  the accused person’s clothes.
The Goel murder case, local media said, is probably the only case apart from the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai, where a foreign laboratory has helped the Mumbai police.
The chief coroner in Ontario, had agreed to assist the Mumbai police with Mitochondrial DNA analysis, a process not available in India.
As for the Goel family, they are hoping that the recent developments will bring closure to the horrific chapter in their lives.
“We want the truth, that’s all we want,” Sanjay Goel has maintained.