After insisting it was a suicide, the Uttar Pradesh government has finally conceded that deputy chief medical officer Y.S. Sachan was murdered.
A murder case under Sections 302 and 120B IPC was registered at the Gosainganj police station Sunday on the orders of Lucknow’s DIG over Dr Sachan’s death. The case against unnamed persons was registered on the basis of a letter sent to the DIG by Dr Malti Sachan, the deceased’s wife, on Saturday.
The filing of the case is an admission by the state government that the deputy CMO did not commit suicide and was murdered in cold blood, as alleged by his family and the media.
The post-mortem report, which points to one injury after death — laceration around the neck — means an effort was made to hang the doctor’s body with his belt after he was killed. It was on the basis of this report that the family succumbed to pressure and allowed the doctor’s remains to be cremated on Friday.
“The post-mortem report clearly points to murder; it’s on this basis that we will fight for justice,” the slain doctor’s brother had told reporters.
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Chinese links of Maoists being probed
Rabindra Nath Choudhury
Raipur
June 26: The Chhattisgarh police has started investigating the Maoists’ alleged links to China following the recent seizure of a Chinese weapon in an encounter with Naxals in the state’s Bijapur district.
“A Chinese-made AK- 47, manufactured in 1996, was recovered from a local Maoist commander who was killed in an encounter in the Sitapur jungles recently. This was the first time that a Chinese-made weapon was seized,” Bastar IGP T.J. Longkumar told reporters on Sunday.