The Madras High Court today directed tha uthorities to hand over to all counsel concerned copies of opinions of experts who viewed the videography of the post-mortem on Dalit youth Ilavarasan whose body was found along a railway track in Dharmapuri five days ago.
23-year old Ilavarasan, whose marriage to a upper caste girl triggered anti-Dalit violence in three villages of the district in November last, was found along the track on July 4, a day after his wife said she would never go back to him.
A Division Bench comprising Justices V Dhanapalan and C T Selvam watched the videography for over two hours with experts from various medical institutions.
The experts, including Additional Medical Superintendent and in-Charge MLC -Autopsy wing of JIPMER, Puducherry Dr M J E Ambroise and Dr K K Shaha, Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, JIPMER among others, said there are some defects in the autopsy but that a second post-mortem was not needed as the main injuries had already been covered extensively in the video.
Yesterday Ilavarasan's friend Ramesh had filed a petition seeking a second post-mortem.
The experts said collection of blood for chemical analysis was unsatisfactory and none of the organs had been weighed as per the standard protocol.
Dr Dekal, Associate Professor, Savitha Medical College, differed in his opinion, saying it was not a reasonably good autopsy in a highly suspicious case and an autopsy surgeon may not be able to tell whether it could be a suicide or homicide from the way documentations were done.
Dr Rajamani Bheem Rao, Associate Professor, Forensic Medicines, Madras Medical College, Dr K Thunder, Chief, Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Dharmapuri Medical College,Dr R Satish Kumar,Tutor in Forensic Medicine, Government Dharmapuri Medical College and Dr G Ravi Kumar all said there was no need for a second post-mortem.
The bench later directed the Court Registry to hand over copies of these reports to all counsel concerned and posted the matter for tomorrow for further hearing and for orders on the petitions for a fresh post-mortem.
While the post-mortem concluded that the Dalit youth died of serious head injuries, his family members and Dalit outfits have been maintaining that he had been done to death.
