As the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) roped in forensic experts at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) it is now confirmed that RTI activist Shehla Masood was murdered in Bhopal. The forensic experts, who visited the crime site and studied the autopsy report, have come to the conclusion that she was shot dead.
“We studied the pattern of the injury, the fire arm used and the autopsy report. The features of the wound-the depth and its direction helped us conclude that she was actually murdered,” said a senior doctor.
A team of forensic experts from the AIIMS had visited Bhopal in January to gather and collaborate clues in connection with the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood. Led by Dr T.D. Dogra, head of forensic sciences department at AIIMS, the experts had visited the spot where the activist had died. The CBI roped the AIIMS experts as the stories of “self inflicted” gun shot by Masood had also doing rounds.
The experts, however, ruled it out, maintaining that, “The findings are different in cases of self-inflicted gun shot, which do not apply here. We took into consideration the angle of the injury. In case she had shot herself the gun powder would have trickled on her hand. However, in this case gun powder was not found, the non recovery of weapon all showed that she was murdered.”
the experts in AIIMS have already submitted their report to the probe agency.