Police suggested the that 51-year-old was suffering from "gross" osteoporosis and this could have led to her suffering serious injuries during the stampede.
Rebutting allegations of Rajbala's family, Delhi Police tonight claimed she had suffered injuries during a stampede in Ramlila Maidan during police action against yoga guru Ramdev and the cause of death was not a lathi-charge.
Police also suggested that 51-year-old Rajbala, who died in a city hospital after battling for life for nearly four months, was suffering from "gross" osteoporosis -- thinning of bone tissue and loss of bone density over time -- and this could have led to her suffering serious injuries.
Rajbala, a resident of Haryana's Gurgaon, had sustained serious spinal injuries during the police action in Ramlila Maidan on June 5 and was admitted with cervical spinal injuries. She underwent a surgery and remained on ventilator since her admission in hospital and had become a quadriplegic.
"Rajbala was injured in a stampede and not in a police lathicharge. She has not told doctors at the hospital about any police lathicharge and instead had told them that she got injured in a stampede," Dharmendra Kumar, Special Commissioner (Law and Order), told reporters.
The medico-legal certificate (MLC) filed by doctors on the basis of the victim's statement also did not mention police lathi-charge but stampede, he said.
"The MLC will have the nature of injuries and what the victim tells a doctor. It was not recorded in the MLC that the injuries were caused by a lathicharge," he said.
Kumar said the medical report they received from the hospital also noted that she was suffering from "gross" osteoporosis. "In this condition, bones become brittle. Even a small injury could become serious in this case," he said.
Earlier in the day, her daughter-in-law Rajesh Malik and other relatives alleged that she died due to injuries suffered during lathi-charge and debunked the police theory.
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