Bowing to the father's uncanny protest, authorities in Kannauj district of west UP agreed to get a second post-mortem conducted. The body was heaved out of the five feet deep pit in which it was kept in a coffin for over a month.
In a rather eerie story sure to give one the creeps, the father of a dead girl has preserved her body instead of cremating it as a mark of protest against the alleged "injustice" the family is facing.
The father has kept the body mummified for over a month saying that he would not consign it to flames until a second post mortem is conducted and those responsible for her death are brought to book. While the police have recorded the death as a suicide, the family members allege murder.
Bowing to the father's uncanny protest, the authorities in Kannauj district of west UP on Tuesday agreed to get a second post mortem conducted. The body was heaved out of the five feet deep pit in which it was kept in a coffin for over a month.
"We are getting another post mortem done as desired by the family members," Kannauj district magistrate AK Jha told reporters on Tuesday. "The analysis would be done by a team of three doctors in natural light, and would be videographed," he added.
According to the police, the girl Ritu had committed suicide but her father Dr Vishambhar Singh Yadav, a practicing naturopath, says it was a "pre-planned murder". Ritu, a resident of Tirwa village in Sahanapur area of Kannauj, was a first year student of B.Tech (computer science) at a private university in Noida.
AK Sharma, investigating officer of the Noida police, who was in Kannauj on Tuesday, said it was a clear case of suicide. Ritu had committed suicide onApril 19 by jumping from the 17th floor of her apartment building in NRI city, about 12 km from the university, he told reporters.
But the girl's father is livid at the police "inaction" he alleges. "They have not even bothered to interrogate Vishal, the boy who was present in the room where four of Ritu's roommates beat her up just before she died," Yadav told reporters. He said the body did not bear any signs of major damage which should have been the case if she had actually fallen from the 17thstorey as per the police story.
He said Ritu's suicide note clearly showed that her room-mates and the boyfriend of one of them was responsible for her death. The four room-mates have been sent to jail for abetting the suicide.
Yadav has preserved Ritu's body with a mixture of ghee, 'ittar' (a naturaly extracted perfume oil) and some chemicals smeared on it. The body is kept in a deep pit, with a polythene sheet and wooden planks covering it.
Kannauj is famous the world over for its 'ittar' which is derived from botanical material from flowers, herbs and wood. Apart from being a perfume, it is known to have preservative qualities.
In her suicide note, Ritu has clearly blamed her room-mates and Vishal, the boyfriend of one of them, for creating circumstances leading to her death. The family say the suicide note is genuine which makes the whodunit even more of a jigsaw puzzle.
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