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Bid to tamper with evidence seen in murder case

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, APRIL 28. The former Union Minister from Maharashtra, Vijay Naval Patil, has claimed that there were attempts to tamper with the evidence related to the murder of his daughter, Kirti (28), which took place in Bangalore on April 2. The Sanjaynagar Police subsequently arrested her husband, Niranjan Kumar, a builder, on a charge of murder.

In notarised statements sent to the Police Commissioner, S. Mariswamy, and to the State Law Secretary, and in a letter to the Chief Minister S.M. Krishna, Mr. Patil, a resident of Mumbai, said that he had taken his daughter's body to his hometown and had a second autopsy conducted.

The doctors at the Forensic Medicine Department of Grant Medical College Hospital, Mumbai, said in the autopsy report that most internal organs, including the heart, lungs, liver, kidney, trachea and brain, were missing from the body.

The internal body cavities were found stuffed with cotton.

The post-mortem examination done at Bowring Hospital in Bangalore was not recorded on video as stipulated by the rules and "I suspect that the internal organs have been deliberately removed." Niranjan Kumar's father is medical practitioner in Bangalore and they could have tried to influence the government doctors, Mr. Patil alleged.

The politician, who was a Minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister, the late Indira Gandhi, claimed that Niranjan Kumar had misled his wife by pretending to be a doctor while he was actually a medical college dropout. He had also borrowed money from his wife's family. Mr. Patil also alleged in his statements to the Bangalore Police that he had evidence of Niranjan Kumar's extra marital relationships.

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