Karachi: A Pakistani Hindu dental college student was found dead in her hostel room in Pakistan’s Sindh province with a rope tied to her neck, a media report said. Namrita Chandni, a final year student of Bibi Asifa Dental College in Larkana district, was found lying on a cot by her friends with a rope tied to her neck. Her room was locked from inside, Express Tribune reported.
Chandni belonged to Ghotki, the district which was in the news after three cases against 218 rioters were filed for vandalising properties, including a temple. Protests erupted in Ghotki after an FIR was filed against the principal of a school on the complaint of a student’s father who claimed the teacher had committed blasphemy.
Chandni’s friends grew worried when she did not respond to their knocks on the door for several minutes. “She was neither responding to the knocking at the door nor to our shouts,” one of her friends told police. The hostel’s watchman later broke open the door and found her dead, the report said. Police is yet to ascertain whether the girl committed suicide or was murdered. The girl’s body has been sent for a postmortem. The V-C of the college Anila Attaur Rehman said the incident appeared to be one of suicide but police and the medical team will be able to ascertain the actual cause of death after the postmortem.
Doubts raised over autopsy report
Doubts have been raised over the autopsy report, as some medico-legal experts cited several flaws in it, according to a media report. Experts and officials of the medico-legal section of the health department in Karachi believe that the autopsy report carried many flaws and missed key facts. They said that the ligature mark in picture was not due to a dupatta.
“The post-mortem findings show suicide but ligature mark shows strangulation,” said the expert. In the post-mortem report, time between death and postmortem was 11-12 hours but the picture appeared to be about 24 hours old because decomposition signs had developed, the report said. The experts said that no comments had been mentioned in the post-mortem report conducted in Larkana about decomposition. Instead, it has been mentioned in the report that the condition of the body was “fresh”.
Official sources said that it would be more appropriate if a proper medical board had been constituted to conduct an autopsy of the student, the report said further.
