Bengal police exhume physique of IIT Kharagpur pupil Faizan Ahmed

On Monday, May 22, 2023, a gaggle of regulation enforcement officers from Kharagpur, West Bengal, arrived in Dibrugarh. Following a court docket docket order from the Calcutta High Court, they proceeded to exhume the physique of Faizan Ahmad. Faizan Ahmad, a pupil on the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, was discovered ineffective in mysterious circumstances on the hostel in October of the sooner yr. He was initially from Assam.

As per the order from the Calcutta High Court to exhume Faizan’s physique, the physique was taken out of the grave. The High Court ordered for a second post-mortem to be carried out at Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, stating the need to determine whether or not or not his lack of life was a suicide or not.

In October of ultimate yr, a report was made to the police referring to a foul scent emanating from a locked room in Lala Lajpat Rai (LLR) Hall on the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in West Bengal. Subsequently, the police responded to the scene and opened the door of the room. It was then that they discovered the lifeless physique of Faizan Ahmad, a 23-year-old pupil studying Mechanical Engineering. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma expressed his condolences by the use of a tweet.

The police mentioned that the scholar who handed away was from Tinsukia, Assam. They obtained data that he had been missing for two days. Faizan resided in Rajendra Prasad Hall. The police have been unsure of the reasons and timing for his go to to LLR Hall. An officer instructed that it looked to be a suicide case, nevertheless the police have been conducting a whole investigation into all factors of the matter.

Order and observations by the High Court

On twenty fifth April 2023, Justice Rajasekhar Mantha talked about, “A second post-mortem is vital and necessary for arriving at the truth in this case. The body of the victim has been buried as per Muslim rites at Assam. Let the body of the victim Faizan Ahmed is ordered to be exhumed. The investigating officer in the matter shall coordinate with the Assam Police and ensure that the body and/or remains are exhumed, brought to Kolkata by the State Police and a fresh post-mortem is conducted.”

The court docket docket added, “Firstly, there are two visible injury marks, otherwise medically called Haematoma, on the back of the head of the victim and the marks have been confirmed by Mr. Sandip Kumar Bhattacharya, Ld. Amicus Curiae. The original post-mortem report does not mention the same. It is submitted by Mr. Bhattacharya that sodium nitrate a yellowish powder is normally used to  preserve meat.”

The court docket docket moreover well-known its observations on the late revealing of the lack of life. The court docket docket talked about, “It is submitted that when a body decomposes, it is impossible that the fellow inmates of the hostel would not be able to detect it. There was mysteriously no smell from the body for 3 days. The presence of this chemical Emplura (Sodium Nitrate) opens up serious questions as regards the time of death and whether it may have been used to preserve the body after the death of the victim.”

The court docket docket clarified that its order should not be interpreted as questioning or criticizing the state police. It added, “This order should not be construed as casting any aspersions on the State police since they have proceeded primarily on the post-mortem report given to them. It is expected that the aforesaid exercise is conducted and completed within a period of one month from date.”