Ruling out natural cause as the reason behind death of Sunanda Pushkar, the FIR registered in connection with the case describes her as a healthy individual, besides documenting the injuries, including teeth bite and syringe marks, on the body of the deceased.
The duration of these injuries ranged from 12 hours to four days, says the FIR.
“The Autopsy Board, AIIMS, has in its latest report vide no Cl.FM No 18/2014 dated 29.12.14 has concluded that it is not a natural death and the poisoning is through oral route, however, injectable route, too, also can’t be ruled out. In view of this latest report a case u/s 302 IPC (murder) is made out,” says the FIR.
It further states that circumstantial evidence were suggestive of Alprazolam poisoning.
On the injuries, the FIR says they were “caused by blunt force, simple in nature, non- contributing to death and are produced in scuffle, except injury number 10 which is an injection mark. Injury number 12 is a teeth bite mark”.
According to the FIR, the Autopsy Board “further required that a few of other medico legal points needs to be addressed by IO since the circumstantial information are essential for medical opinion”.
In response to the information sought by the Board, photographs of the scene of crime, statements of witnesses and relatives, e mails etc. were provided to the Autopsy Board on October 1.
The board members, says the document, were requested to visit the scene of crime to collect any object/material from the scene of occurrence which may be of any importance for medical examination and conclusive opinion in the post mortem report.
It also states that viscera were positive for ethyl alcohol, caffeine, acetaminophen and cotinine.
The FIR also documents the injuries on Sunanda’s body, including
teeth bite and
syringe marks
