CBI to quiz forensic experts in Vyapam

Hospital staff involved in conducting post-mortem of the Vyapam scam suspects are likely to be quizzed by the CBI again to ascertain the facts mentioned in their reports.

Sources said, “The agency will once again seek clarifications from forensic experts who gave different findings in the case involving the mysterious death of second-year medical student Namrata Damor after her name figured in the multi-crore Vyapam scam”.

Namrata was found dead on railway tracks in Ujjain in January, 2012. The agency sleuths will also call Dr B.B. Purohit, who did the first post-mortem on Damore suggesting her death was a result of “violent asphyxia as a result of smothering” suggesting murder. The agency is now focusing on the contradictory report given by D.S. Barhkur, a forensic expert who is also the director of medico-legal institute in Bhopal, who had rubbished the post-mortem report finalised by a three-doctor panel led by Dr Purohit, the sources said.

“The state police had initially filed a case of murder, but while filing a closure report in 2014, termed it a suicide. They (cops) decided to file closure report in the case on the basis of a forensic report, filed two months after the autopsy. The forensic report had concluded that Namrata’s injuries were more consistent with a fall on the train track rather than smothering or asphyxiation”, sources said.

Besides, the CBI has also sought expert opinion from the AIIMS to determine if there was any foul play in Aaj Tak journalist Akshay Singh’s sudden death.