Vyapam: Delhi hospital to conduct college dean’s autopsy

New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh Parliamentary Affairs Minister Narottam Mishra has claimed that the death of Jabalpur Medical College Dean Arun Sharma is not related to Vyapam scam. “A medical board was constituted to conduct post mortem”, Bassi said.

The dean was found dead on Sunday morning at a hotel in Delhi.

The histopathology tests provide a detailed analysis of blood, tissues and DNA samples giving possible causes of death which helps the investigators, said a senior officer. “CCTV footage is also being scanned”. “We want to assure everyone that Delhi police will leave no stone unturned to bring out the truth”, he said.

The dean of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose medical college or otherwise known as Jabalpur medical college was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a hotel room near Indira Gandhi global airport in NewDelhi on Sunday. Investigators said there was no evidence at this stage to suggest foul play as they have only found a nearly-empty bottle of liquor and vomit in Sharma’s room and there were no injury marks.

As per initial investigations, foul play was ruled out in Sharma’s death but Delhi Police was “minutely” studying the circumstantial evidence and awaiting the final post-mortem report.

The gruesomely lengthy line-up of deaths in the Vyapam scam has led the opposition Congress to demand that the CBI be tasked to the inquiry, rather than the Madhya Pradesh police, whose probe is being supervised by the High Court.

The police quoted the deceased’s son as saying that his father was suffering from diabetes and hypertension.

Sharma was probing the scam in his college and was on his way to Agartala as part of an inspection team with the Medical Council of India. Dr Sharma took charge as Dean on June 1 this year. “He (Sakalle) was taking strong action against irregular admissions in medical colleges through Vyapam. No Govt said it was suicide”. Besides Singh and Sharma, at least 25 accused and witnesses have died so far in the Vyapam scam, a massive admission and recruitment racket involving several bureaucrats and politicians.