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Murder or Suicide? Fresh Questions About Vyapam Scam Accused Namrata Damor’s Death


Mangalore Today News Network

Bhopal, July 08, 2015:  The death of a 19-year-old medical student linked to the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh, dismissed as a suicide three years ago, is back in focus after a journalist interviewing her father died suddenly on Saturday.

 

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Namrata Damor was found dead on railway tracks in Ujjain in January, 2012. When the case was closed in 2014, the police called it a suicide.

But the state government and the police are under pressure to reopen the case after questions over her autopsy report - it said she died because of "violent asphyxia as a result of smothering" and the findings suggested "homicide".

"Based on the report, we investigated her death and recreated the crime scene with forensic experts. We found nothing that suggested murder. If there is new evidence we can investigate again but so far there is nothing to indicate murder," said senior police officer Manohar Varma.

Namrata, a second year medical student, was one of the accused in the Vyapam scam. She is believed to have secured a seat in a medical college illegally.

Journalist Akshay Singh was investigating Namrata’s death when he died on Saturday. Mr Singh was speaking to her father at their home in Jhabua and waiting for her medical reports when he started frothing at the mouth and collapsed. Doctors said he had died of a heart attack, but after protests by Mr Singh’s family, Delhi’s AIIMS hospital has been asked to investigate the cause of death.

There have been 35 deaths linked to the scam since 2012; the causes range from road accidents to suicides, alcohol poisoning and heart attacks.

On Tuesday, Justice Chandresh Bhushan, who is leading the investigations into the admission and recruitment scam, told NDTV: "I won’t call these deaths ’mysterious’ but ’abnormal’."

Vyapam is the Hindi acronym for a state board that conducts tests for medical and engineering colleges as well as government jobs. Lakhs of candidates allegedly paid bribes to politicians and bureaucrats who allowed imposters to take the all-important recruitment exam.

 

Courtesy: NDTV


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