Batcha was found dead in mysterious circumstances in his Chennai residence in March this year. Raja who has been arrested in connection with the 2G spectrum scam is lodged in the Tihar Jail.
On a day when a team of doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) reached Chennai to probe the circumstances that led to the death of Sadiq Batcha, the doctor who performed autopsy on him, says the death of the former former Union minister A Raja’s aide is mysterious.
“I can not tell that Batcha’s death was a suicide. All I said after the autopsy was that he died because of asphyxia,” Dr V Deckel, the physician who conducted the autopsy of Batcha told DNA. He was reacting to reports that appeared in a section of the media that Batcha was murdered.
Batcha was found dead in mysterious circumstances in his Chennai residence in March this year. Raja who has been arrested in connection with the 2G spectrum scam is lodged in the Tihar Jail.
Dr Deckel said he has never told Batcha committed suicide. “My responsibility was to find out the cause of death. After the autopsy, I told that Batcha died of asphyxia. It was for the investigating officials to find out how he died. My conclusion was that he died because of asphyxia and shortage of air supply to the tissues in the body,” he said. Dr Deckel declined to answer when he was asked whether Batcha’s death was a case of suicide.
“These things I will discuss with the investigating officials,” he said.
The doctor with more than 2500 autopsies to his credit, said he was ready to help the investigating officials to reach the correct conclusions. “I had requested the director of medical education, government of Tamil Nadu, to constitute a board of experts to analyse all points observed during the autopsy. I suggested that director of Forensic Sciences Department, head, pathology department and the director of medical education to sit together and examine my observations and inferences,” he said.
He disclosed that the viscera examination by the forensic science department found nothing suspicious. A senior official of the CBI, with more than three decades of crime investigation behind him, said the chemical examination of the viscera was to find out whether the victim had been poisoned.
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