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“No mystery behind missing organs in Scarlette case”

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PANAJI: The Goa government asserted on Tuesday that the doctors at the State-owned Goa Medical College and hospital adhered to the standard procedure while conducting two autopsies on the British teenager Scarlette Keeling.

The 15-year-old girl was found dead on a Goan beach on February 18.

The government also clarified that “there was no mystery about missing body organs.” At a specially convened press conference, Chief Secretary J. P. Singh lashed out at some sections of the national media for sensationalising and blowing out of proportion wrong and baseless news — in the aftermath of the third autopsy done on her body in Britain — that some vital organs were missing. “It [the allegation] implied that this [removal of organs] was done deliberately and that it was part of a cover-up by the Goa police and the government,” he said.

During the first autopsy on February 18, full stomach, half of the spleen and half of the kidneys were removed. Samples were sent to the Forensic Laboratory at Mumbai for chemical analysis. During the second autopsy, on March 8, the remaining half of each of the kidneys and remaining spleen were removed. The uterus was removed to confirm sexual assault. This was preserved for histo-pathological analysis.

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