Autopsy report claims 6 injuries on Cipriano

Autopsy report claims 6 injuries on Cipriano
HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, JAN 13
In what could put Goa police in the dock over the custodial death of Cipriano Fernandes, the autopsy report has claimed six injuries on the deceased’ body.
Local rights group alongwith relatives of Cipriano have charged the Panjim police with torture in the case.
Sources in the Goa Medical College, however, told Herald that the cause of death is reserved as the report on the chemical analysis is still awaited.
“Six injuries including those on the head and body were found during the post-mortem”, doctors, who did not want to be named, said.
Declining to reveal the cause of death, doctors said it has been reserved as the deceased was admitted to the GMC on the night of January 8 as an alcoholic and was treated for the same.
Hence, “it is prudent to wait for the chemical analysis report before concluding what led to Cipriano’s death”, they said.
According to doctors, Cipriano was brought to the GMC on January 8 at night and died the next morning at 6.45.
While the magisterial enquiry into the death of Cipriano is yet to be completed, authorities have dispatched the autopsy report to National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
Sources told Herald that whenever there are allegations of custodial deaths the standard procedure is to send the autopsy report to the NHRC along with the video recording. Doctors at the GMC confirmed sending the report along with the CD of video recording to the NHRC.
Meanwhile, Utt Goenkara has demanded that the police officials involved in the torture should be immediately suspended following the disclosures in the post-mortem report.
Adv Jatin Naik, vice president of the rights group, said, “our first demand is that the policemen involved should be suspended and a judicial inquiry be initiated in the matter”.