The Delhi Police on Friday informed the highcourt that the death of a farmer whose tractor overturned during the tractorrally on Republic Day was due to shock and hemorrhage as a result of headinjury, and not due to any gunshot injury.
The police stated this in the status report filed in a petition moved bydeceased Navreet Singh's grandfather seeking court-monitored SIT probe into thedeath. He asserted that Navreet Singh was allegedly shot by the policemen, dueto which he lost control of the tractor.
Navreet Singh died on January 26 after- the police said- his tractor overturnedafter ramming into police barricades during the tractor rally. The accident wascaptured on CCTV camera.
"As per the opinion of the panel of doctors which conducted thepost-mortem, the cause of death is shock and hemorrhage as a result ofante-mortem head injury. The death is not due to any gunshot injury," thestatus report stated.
A panel of three doctors, namely Mohammad Zubair, Dashrath Singh and ManojKumar Shukla, conducted the post-mortem at 2 a.m. on January 27.
"The doctors did an X-ray before conducting the post-mortem. The X-Rayplates prima facie showed that there was no gunshot injury in the body of thedeceased," the police told the court.
It is pertinent to mention here that the doctors who conducted the post-mortemwere medical experts and there is no substantive ground to question theirperformance or duty, the police added.
The plea by Navreet Singh's grandfather Hardeep Singh had sought for a courtappointed and monitored Special Investigation Team probe. It also sought theSIT to file periodic status reports to ensure time-bound, court-monitoredinvestigation.
The petition said the forensic experts, who reviewed the description ofinjuries in the post-mortem report, independently opined that the injuries wereconsistent with firearm or gunshot wounds and could not have resulted from thetractor overturning.