Gym belt matches Twisha Sharma's injuries, says AIIMS report

NEW DELHI: In a significant development in the Twisha Sharma death case, the AIIMS Delhi team is said to have reached a conclusion, sharing an 11-page report with Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a sealed cover on Friday. The report remains confidential under court orders. According to sources, the laboratory and histopathological examinations conducted by the AIIMS medical board had confirmed the presence of skin tissue on the alleged ligature material — a gymnastics belt — and indicated that it matched the injury pattern, sources said.While declining to disclose contents of the report in view of the high court’s directives and subsequent Supreme Court orders, Dr Sudhir Gupta, head of department of forensic medicine at AIIMS, said the board had examined every aspect of the case before arriving at its conclusions.“The medical board deliberated very minutely on the details of the case from all possible angles, took into consideration all available national and international journals for almost one month and has given a detailed opinion with scientific justification. It is a crystal-clear opinion for the CBI and for the judiciary in the interest of truth and justice,” Dr Gupta said.The findings assume significance because the first postmortem could not scientifically correlate the alleged ligature material with the injuries on Twisha Sharma’s neck after the investigating officer failed to produce the gymnastics belt before the medical board during the autopsy. Following this and the family’s demand, Madhya Pradesh High Court ordered a second postmortem by an AIIMS Delhi medical board. The central forensic question was whether the gymnastics belt with a metal ring allegedly used for hanging was the actual ligature, keeping in mind the nature of neck injuries.Minor’s hands, legs appeared brokenThe girl’s head and face had gashes, and it appeared her hands and legs were broken when the body was found around 1 am.ACP Priyashree Pal said, “A team from Nandgram police station and forensic units inspected the scene to collect evidence. They analysed CCTV footage from the site to identify the culprits.” Cops said footage from 7.40 pm Friday showed the two suspects walking away with the girl. The girl’s father told TOI he has been living in the locality for four years. “We usually get free around 5 pm from work. After that, I went out while my wife was preparing food. Around 7 pm on Friday, my daughter and her two brothers (aged 8 and 10) were playing outside. When the two boys came home around 8 pm, my wife started looking for our daughter,” he said.The child’s mother said the construction site has guards, and several labourers and their families live in shanties around the construction area, but no one had so far come up to identify the accused.“I don’t know the people who have been arrested for this. But I want whoever did this to my daughter to be hanged,” she said. A neighbour said the accused had arrived just four days earlier to work at the site.You Can Also Check: Gold Rate in Indore | Silver Rate in Indore | Bank Holidays in Indore | Public Holidays in Indore | Petrol Price in Indore | Diesel Price in Indore | CNG Price in Indore | LPG Price in IndoreStay updated with the latest Indore news. Download the TOI App.