The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) panel of physicians, led by Dr. Sudhir Gupta, who was re-evaluating Sushant Singh Rajput’s post-mortem and viscera reports based on the 20 percent viscera sample available with them, he presented his findings to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) yesterday. The CBI is investigating the death case of Sushant Singh Rajput and the AIIMS report will help them determine whether it was a suicide or murder.
Here are 10 points you need to know about the AIIMS report and why it is crucial in solving Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case:
1. According to the information India Today had access to, the AIIMS report is a “conclusive finding”, however the CBI will take one last call after reviewing the evidence it has collected so far.
2. Dr. Sudhir Gupta, who led the medical team, said that AIIMS and CBI agree with the findings in the death case of Sushant Singh Rajput, but that more deliberations are needed. “It is necessary to analyze some legal aspects for a logical legal conclusion,” he said.
3. Sushant Singh Rajput’s family lawyer, Vikas Singh, had previously claimed that, according to the AIIMS doctors’ report, the actor’s cause of death was “200% strangulation”. Vikas Singh had said: “Frustrated by the delay in which CBI made the decision to turn complicity in suicide into murder of SSR [Sushant Singh Rajput]. The doctor who is part of the AIIMS team had told me a long time ago that the photos sent by me indicated 200% that it was death by strangulation and not suicide. “
4. However, Dr. Sudhir Gupta called these statements “incorrect”. Responding to Vikas Singh’s claims, Dr. Sudhir Gupta told India Today: “The investigation is still continuing. What you are saying is not correct. We cannot just conclude on murder or suicide based on the ligature marks and the crime scene Needed “further investigation which is still ongoing and not completed.”
5. Rhea Chakraborty’s lawyer, Satish Maneshinde, in response to Vikas Singh’s statement demanded the formation of a new medical board to investigate the case. Saying that agencies are being pressured, Maneshinde added: “The disclosure of a 200% strangulation finding by an AIIMS physician in the team led by Dr. Gupta in the SSR case, based on photographs, it is a dangerous trend. Investigations are impartial and free of inferences, the IWC must constitute a new medical board. Agencies are being pressured to reach a predetermined result for obvious reasons on the eve of the Bihar elections. We have seen VRS from DG Pandey deploying a few days ago. There should be no repetition of such steps. “
6. After Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead in his Mumbai home on June 14, the initial investigation by the Mumbai Police had pointed to suicide as the cause of death. Sushant Singh Rajput’s autopsy report also confirmed asphyxia by hanging as the cause of death.
7. The CBI investigation so far has not yielded any evidence to suggest otherwise. The CBI, therefore, will rely heavily on the AIIMS report. The CBI Special Investigation Team (SIT), formed to investigate Sushant’s death case, was in close contact with AIIMS doctors to decide on the direction of the investigation.
8. Many photos of Sushant Singh Rajput circulated on social media immediately after her death. In one of the photos, a green kurta and a bathrobe belt can be seen prominently. While the Mumbai Police in their reports said that the actor hanged himself with the help of the green kurta, many have questioned the presence of the belt of the bathrobe in his room. After the photos went viral on social media, Sushant’s fans speculated that the actor was strangled with the help of his robe belt and then hanged with the kurta.
9. The CBI team has to rely on forensics to solve the case, in addition to taking the statements of the people fundamental to the matter. After collecting the forensic evidence, the Mumbai police sent it to the Forensic Science Laboratory in Kalina, Mumbai. The Mumbai police had used about 80% of the viscera samples collected by them as evidence. The CBI kept the remaining 20 percent of the viscera sample. Sources from the Forensic Sciences Laboratory revealed that around 80 percent of the collected samples of Sushant’s DNA, blood and other organs have been used by the Mumbai Police. Kalina’s lab still has 20 percent of the sample left, which will be useful in the CBI investigation. In addition to the viscera samples, the lab also has drug strips and cigarette buds collected from Sushant’s room.
10. The final AIIMS report was presented to the CBI on Monday (September 28).
