Death case of Vyapam beneficiary to reopen after autopsy terms it homicidal

Badkur said Namrata was reported missing on January 2, 2012, and her body was recovered on January 7 and cremated. “It was a case of violent asphyxia as a result of smothering” and nail injuries were found on her face. The doctor who conducted the autopsy on Namrata’s body joins the show as do whistleblowers Dr Anand Rai and Prashant Pandey. Earlier her death was found as accidental and the case file was closed, surprisingly within 24 hours.

BB Purohit, a doctor who was part of the team that performed the autopsy on Namrata Damor, said she was murdered.

However, the Madhya Pradesh Medico Legal Institute that handles forensic medicine had submitted a report saying that it was a case of suicide and rejected the others’ opinion, this Telegraph report said. Namrata, a student of MGM Medical College, Indore, was a suspect in Madhya Pradesh’s Vyapam scam, and charged with using unfair means to clear her entrance exam. Manohar Varma, superintendent of police (Ujjain), who had ordered the reopening of Namrata’s case, remained unavailable for comment throughout the day despite several attempts by dna to reach him.

The autopsy was conducted at district hospital in Ujjain.

The case of mysterious death of Damor, an alleged beneficiary of the massive admission and recruitment scam, had got obscured with time, but was back in focus last Saturday when TV journalist Akshay Singh, probing the Vyapam scam, died soon after interviewing her parents. This raised questions on the investigation by STF, which had wrongly claimed that Namrata Damor committed suicide whereas the post mortem report had revealed that the latter had died of asphyxiation. There were bruises on the nose and mouth of the woman which indicated she was strangled, Dr Purohit told NDTV.

Damor’s death is one of many mysterious deaths in a case that could be handed to the CBI if the Supreme Court decides to do so.

Congress spokesperson R P N Singh also demanded a separate CBI inquiry into all deaths that have taken place in connection with the Vyapam scam.

However, two years later the death was termed as suicide by the police.