MEDICAL STUDENT WAS MURDERED: POLICE
By preetasr | August 25, 2008
IT HAS taken two years for the Amritsar Police to come to the conclusion that medical student Shashi Bhushan, whose body was found on the government Medical College premises here, was murdered.
Amritsar SSp Kunwar Vijay PartapSingh that after the police inquiry had established that Shashi was murdered, a case under Section 302 of the IPC was registered against unidentified persons. Shahsi’s body was found in sewerage behind the Pathology Department of the college on November 28, 2006. Calling it an accident, the police had initiated inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC on the basis of the post-mortem examination conducted at the medical college.
Sensing foul play, Sarabjit Singh Verka, Chief investigator of the Punjab Human Rights Organization (PHRO), had filed a petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court in July. Quoting Shahsi’s parents, Verka alleged that another medical student, Arun Dalal, and his father Dr J.s. Dalal, a former medical college principal and now DRME, Punjab, were involved in the murder.
The PHRO had claimed in its petition that Shahsi was influenced by Arun and his father to help Arun in cheating in MBBS exam in November 2006.
“However, Shashi was caught by the flying squad, but managed to escape. He took shelter in Dr Dalal’s house and went missing after that,” the PHRO claimed. Shahsi’s body was found six days later. Interestingly according to the post-mortem examination conducted in the college, the death was an accident, but the second post-mortem done in New Delhi at the instance of Shahsi’s parents confirmed injuries on his head, neck and skull. Shahsi’s parents had alleged that their son was murdered and had even demanded a CBI probe into the matter.
Verka, however, said registering a case was not enough. “Even after two years, the police have failed to identify the accused,” he said.
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Topics: Amritsar Diary, City News |
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