‘Report doesn’t point to mob injury’
A senior forensic doctor said the post-mortem examination report of Delhi police constable Subhash Tomar does not suggest that he was injured by the mob.
“The injuries could have been due to a fall, cardiac massage, due to the medical and surgical treatment (giving intra-cardiac injections), or even during transporting him in the ambulance to the hospital.” It was learnt that the post-mortem report has no mention of death being due to any assault. When contacted, Yogendra, the eyewitness, claimed he was at India Gate with a female friend who too was injured. Yogendra said he saw a policeman collapsing while running after the protesters. “We rushed towards him and began to tend to him. Then I rushed to a nearby PCR van and they took him to hospital,” he said. The eyewitness said he also went to the hospital in the same vehicle. “I saw him in hospital and his body didn’t have any injuries,” he claimed. The student said the constable was “not trampled or assaulted by a mob”. Maintaining that the police claims were “false”, the eyewitness said he was “surprised to hear that eight had been arrested over Tomar’s death”.
Another eyewitness, Paolin, also said she saw Tomar falling down. “We removed his jacket and shoes. I asked whether he can hear me and then I asked him to breathe... He was sweating profusely and there were no injuries on his body. If we had not been there, he would have been dead on the spot,” she said.
However, the constable’s family insisted that he died following injuries caused by the protesters. They also denied that Tomar suffered from any heart-related problems.
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