Forensic reports suggest Aabesh Dasgupta died in accident

KOLKATA: The state forensics laboratory is expected to submit before the detective department that will state that teenager Aabesh Dasgupta’s death was an accident. However, it might be still a few days before Lalbazar can officially inform court about their findings or even decide to come to a final conclusion. The central forensics laboratory is expected to file a separate independent report based on the analysis of CCTV footages.Similarly, the forensic doctors too are yet to submit their final report. “It is a sensitive case and crucial reports are awaited. It is still sometime before we decide to close the case,” said a top homicide wing official who is also part of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed to probe the case.
Police sources maintained that the state FSL officials have unofficially informed SIT members that there are four points that they have pondered about before arriving at the conclusion that Aabesh died a natural death. One, if the incident was that of murder then the alleged “murder weapon” – in this case the alcohol bottle would have broken in to two where the upper portion of the bottle would have had smaller length than the lower portion. In this case, the two broken portions seem to be of equal length.
Two, the broken pieces of glass would have been strewn all over the place as two people would have come in contact with the glass – both the accused and the victim. In this case, the broken pieces were strewn at one particular spot.
Three, the broken piece that supposedly pierced the artillery of Aabesh has matched that of the wound on his body. Finally, there were broken glass particles on Aabesh’s clothes that show he had fallen on the glass and not attacked by a second person. The police say they have four statements recorded in court by the eyewitnesses that collaborates the findings of the state FSL experts. The police, however, say that the CCTV footages will be crucial. “The analogy here is based on the concept that the alcohol bottle might have been the sole weapon. The CCTV footage analysis and post-mortem report will eliminate all other possibilities. But yes, we are happy that the forensic evidence points to our line of probe so far,” said an officer.
Cops necessarily are waiting for forensic reports of 28 samples collected from Sunny Park – the state FSL and the central FSL are likely to come up with two separate reports which again have to be collaborated by the investigators. In all fairness, all this analysis might take another couple of weeks. “The basic questions remain the same – we still have not been able to satisfy the family on the missing 22 seconds of the CCTV footage wherein Aabesh is believed to have jumped down from the ramp and fatally wounded himself. We also have to go merely by statements to ascertain what transpired between 6.03 pm and 6.25 – the time from when Aabesh finally fell bleeding inside the parking lot of tower C and the time he was removed to hospital,” explained an IPS officer.