The Central Bureau of Investigation has roped in experts to scrutinise the medical history of TV Today group journalist Akshay Singh, who died under mysterious circumstances in July while covering the Vyapam scam.
“As part of the probe into the suspicious death, his medical records have been collected for examination by a medical board to ascertain whether he had any ailments which could have led to his death,” a CBI official said.
The CBI may also record the statements of his colleagues who had accompanied him to Madhya Pradesh to reconstruct the sequence of events leading up to his death.
The journalist was following up on the death of medical student Namrata Damor, also an accused in the Vyapam scam, in January 2012. He died shortly after interviewing her parents at Meghnagar near Jhabua. The CBI has registered a murder case in connection with the medical student’s suspicious death. Her body was found near the railway tracks in Ujjain.
