Dr Sachan’s death: Why murder and not suicide
LUCKNOW : Nearly 11 years after deputy chief medical officer (family welfare) Dr YS Sachan’s mysterious death in Lucknow district jail (June 22 2011), the court of special judicial magistrate, CBI, termed it as murder after taking into account several documents submitted by the deceased’s wife in court.
Sachan’s post-mortem report, opinion of medical experts, statements of doctors who had performed the autopsy and other documents submitted by the late Dy CMO’s wife Malti Sachan helped the court reach the conclusion that his death was a conspiracy and murder.
Samriddhi Mishra, special judicial magistrate, CBI court, in her July 11 order pointed out that Malti Sachan had submitted post-mortem report (of Dr Sachan), opinion of medical experts and statements of doctors who had performed the autopsy to prove her charges (that Dr Sachan was murdered).
Dr Sachan was the key accused in the alleged multicrore National Rural Health Mission scam between 2007 and 2012. He was also the key suspect in the murders of two chief medical officers (CMO) – Dr Vinod Kumar Arya and his successor Dr BP Singh, in a similar manner.
Dr Arya was targeted by assailants when he was on a morning walk near his house in Vikas Nagar on October 27, 2010 while Dr BP Singh was targeted by assailants when he was on a morning walk near his house in Vijayant Khand, Gomti Nagar on April 2, 2011. Dr Sachan’s death reportedly ruled out the chance of unravelling names of other white collared people involved in the scam and the murders.
JUDICIAL REPORT RULED OUT SUICIDE
The then chief judicial magistrate Rajesh Upadhyaya had carried out the probe into Sachan’s death.
Dr Sachan’s body was recovered from the under-construction toilet of operation theatre of Lucknow jail hospital. The toilet was on the first floor of the jail hospital.
His body was found sitting on a commode facing the cistern
with the belt around his neck. The belt was tied somewhere in the window around 4.5 feet high from the floor of the toilet.
The deceased’s body bore many injury marks, but the police did not make any effort to find out the cause of death. Instead, it was satisfied by the intimation sent by the jail authorities that it was a case of suicide. According to the probe, it is almost impossible for a person to inflict so many deep incision marks while sitting on a commode and die in the same position, according to the probe.
At around 3.5 feet, two blood spots of 6 cm and 12 cm were found on the wall. If a person dies in the position in which Dr Sachan’s body was found, he could not have made blood spots at such heights. This indicates that the person who tied the belt with the grill must have left marks during the process.
The toilet basin was found removed from the original position. A person sitting on a toilet commode can’t do it.
If it is assumed that the person had ended his life by inflicting incision marks by a sharpedged weapon, then why no weapon was recovered from the spot? According to the doctors’ statements, a person could not have inflicted such deep injury marks with a half blade found on the spot. So many deep wounds cannot be inflicted by a person who is committing suicide.