Vyapam scam victim's father denies giving statement to cops
The Madhya Pradesh Police had abruptly closed the mysterious death case of Namrata Damor, a second-year MBBS student of the MGM Medical College, Indore whose body was found near the railway tracks in Ujjain district in 2012.
A day after CBI team probing the Vyapam case met Mehtab Singh Damor, father of Namrata who was found dead under mysterious circumstances, he said that he had never given any statement to the Madhya Pradesh Police.
The cops had abruptly closed the mysterious death case of the second-year MBBS student of the MGM Medical College, Indore whose body was found near the railway tracks in Ujjain district in 2012. The case was re-opened by the CBI, investigating the Vyapam case on the direction of the Supreme Court, early this month.
"I have never given any statement to the police," 60-year-old Mehtab told mediapersons. He said, "Police ney kabhi mere bayan nahin liye (the police has never taken my statements)."
On Saturday, a CBI team met Mehtab in Meghnagar town of Jhabua district. The probe agency has registered an FIR against unidentified people under Section 302 of the IPS in the mysterious death of Namrata after her name figured in the infamous Vyapam scam.
Initially, the state cops had maintained that Namrata had cleared PMT-2010 conducted by Vyapam by using unfair means. They added that when she came to know that Special Task Force that was investigating the Vyapam scam is likely to grill her, she went into depression and committed suicide on January 7, 2012. Later, her body was recovered from Bherupura railway crossing near Kaytha stop in the Ujjain-Maxi-Bhopal section.
Subsequently, the police closed the case.
However, two teams of doctors have given two different opinions behind her death in the post-mortem reports.
A three-member team of government doctors from the Civil Hospital, Ujjain, including a woman doctor, that was the first to conduct a post-mortem examination on January 9, 2012 termed Namrata's cause of death as "violent asphyxia as a result of smothering" and the findings suggested "homicidal" death.
Almost a month later, Director of state medico legal institute DS Badkur, on February 7, went through the photographs of the body and rejected the earlier opinion. In his report submitted to the state police on March 30, 2012, Badkur termed the case to be that of suicide.
The case of Namrata again came up following the mysterious death of India Today TV journalist Akshay Singh in Jhabua after he interviewed Mehtab.