The mysterious death of Richard Loitam continues to haunt the Bangalore rural district police as the medical report has said his death was not due to physical injuries.
The mysterious death of Richard Loitam continues to haunt the Bangalore rural district police as the medical report has said his death was not due to physical injuries.
In their report submitted to the police on Wednesday, doctors at Victoria Hospital, who conducted the postmortem, stated Loitam’s death was due to a cardiac disease the source of which may be heredity. The doctors prepared the report after analysing autopsy, Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) and pathology reports, police sources said.
The police said they will now gather information on Loitam’s alleged heart disease and ascertain if any of his family members had the disease earlier.
Senior police officers are not sure whether to covert the murder case into an unnatural death report (UDR) case or book a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under section 304 of IPC, police sources said. The superintendent of police (Bangalore district) D Prakash was not available for comments on the medical report as his mobile phone was switched off when DNA tried to contact him while Inspector general of police (central range) Malini Krishnamurthy did not pick up calls.
Loitam, a native of Imphal in Manipur, was found dead on April 18. He was a second semester student of Acharya NRV School of Architecture at Soladevanahalli and resided in the college hostel.
Loitam was reportedly injured when he met with an accident near Sapthagiri Hospital in Chikkabanavara on April 16. He was also injured when his hostel mates—Vishal Banerji and Syed Afzal Ali—punched him during a fight at the hostel on April 17.
The Madanayakanahalli police registered a case of mysterious death based on the complaint lodged by the hostel supervisor Sudhakar. Later they registered it as a case of murder after a fresh complaint was filed by Sudhakar. Loitam’s parents, relatives and friends alleged that he was murdered.
The Bangalore rural district police are expected to reveal details of the medical report and how they plan to go ahead with the case in a press conference to be held on Thursday or Friday.
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