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PK Jaiswar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 17

Over four months after the mysterious death of a nurse, Jyoti Masih, working in a private hospital on the Majitha road here, the police have added the charges of murder and rape in the case following the autopsy report.

The medical board constituted for the postmortem examination of her body in its findings has revealed that she had died of asphyxia.

“After going through autopsy findings and viscera reports, board is of the opinion that likely cause of death in the case is due to asphyxia and possibility of sexual abuse cannot be ruled out,” said the report signed by three members of the medical board.

Parveen Kumar, SHO, Sadar police station, said that on the basis of the report we have added the sections of murder (302 IPC) and rape (376 IPC) in the FIR. He said though the section of rape has been added, but it needs to be investigated.

A Special Investigation Team headed by Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Sandeep Kumar Malik is probing the case.

The 21-year-old nurse was found dead under mysterious circumstances at her hostel room in August. The police had booked four persons for causing death by negligence (304-A, 34 IPC) at that time. Those booked were identified as Gurpreet Singh, Sanjay Sharma, manager of the hospital, his wife Kirti Sharma and Munish Kumar, all employees of the hospital.

The family members had demanded registration of murder case while pointing out that the victim was having sharp injuries on her neck and feet and an empty injection near her body. It appeared that she was injected poison, which led to her death, they alleged.

The autopsy report said no poison was detected in the viscera.