: A doctor on whose signature a post mortem certificate was issued, today denied before the Madras High Court that he had conducted the procedure and sought to implead himself in the case.
Petitioner T Selvaraj, Associate Professor of Department of forensic Medicine of Government Rajaji Hospital and Madurai Medical college, denied the charges of one Kumaresan that he had done the post-mortem and issued the certificate for a woman inmate of Akshaya trust, who died under mysterious circumstances on August 22.
Kumaresan's charge was Selvaraj had issued the Post mortem certificate without conducting the Post mortem in a proper manner and in accordance with settled Medical Principles.
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Selvaraj submitted he had not conducted the Post mortem and not given any such certificate and that he suspected foul play in getting it.
He claimed he had engouh evidence to prove he did not conduct the post mortem. He also wanted to put forth more details on the issue and prayed that he impleaded in the petition.
Justice N.Kirubakaran then posted the case to Sept 10.
On Aug 28, the judge had ordered a another post-mortem, as Kumaresan (respondent in the petition/and original petitioner) contended that the woman had died under mysterious circumstance and had injuries in her body, nothing of which was mentioned in the post-mortem report.
Kumaresan (37) had oringially filed a petition in the Madras High Court Bench on Aug 22, claiming that al had died under 'mysterious circumstances.
He alleged that Selvaraj had issued an autopsy certificate to the Trust on Aug 23 without conducting a proper postmortem. The certificate said there were no marks of violence or injuries and that the woman could have died of 'bilateral pulmonary tuberculosis.'
But photos of the woman's body revealed multiple injuries on her face, chest and neck. The histo-pathology test was not done to determine she died of TB.There was also no mention of examination to determine possible rape, he had noted.
In his order, Justice Kirubakaran had observed that there was a contradiction on the remarks in the postmortem report and photos and had directed the police to make arrangements to exhume the body. He had also ordered constitution of a team of doctors from the GRH to conduct a re-postmortem.
The woman's body was exhumed in the presence of police and revenue officials, Trust staff and two of the petitioner's counsels around 11.30 AM on August 29.
Senior surgeons and forensic experts performed re-postmortem. An initial report is expected to be submitted to the court next Tuesday.
