Dy CMO death: No police case so far,IG cites judicial probe

He said they received a complaint from Dr Sachan’s family through fax on Friday evening,adding that the police would look into the legal aspects to see if the complaint could be forwarded to the Chief Judicial Magistrate probing into the matter.

However,retired state DGP RK Pandit said,“A judicial inquiry is not an investigation and there is no bar on lodging a case on an information given by a person about a cognizable offence or any such incident. The police can investigate such cases.”

Dr Sachan’s wife Malti Devi had given a complaint to the police alleging her husband was murdered in the jail at the behest of influential persons involved in the financial bungling in the Family Welfare department and the killings of the two CMOs.

An information about Dr Sachan’s death in the district jail hospital was recorded in the General Diary (GD) of the concerned Gosainganj Police Station at 8.30 pm on June 22. The police station has not received any written information from the jail authorities so far,said Station Officer (SO) Sanjay Pandey.

A policeman who had visited the spot after Dr Sachan’s body was recovered on Wednesday night said the criminal conspiracy involving some of the jail staff could not be ruled out on the basis of circumstantial evidence and the autopsy report.

He also said the head warder and the warders who were on hospital duty,the deputy jailor and the jailor,the para-medical staff and the doctor on duty that day have all given different details about Dr Sachan’s presence there since Wednesday morning. He added the jail staff came to know about Dr Sachan’s disappearance at 8 pm and had reached the fist floor toilet in just 10 minutes despite the fact that it was dark since there was no electricity on the floor.

An official who is part of the forensic team that collected samples from the spot said the scene of the crime had been disturbed when they reached there 12 hours after the body was recovered. The pool of blood on the floor around the commode in the toilet had clotted.

There were more than half-a-dozen footprints in the toilet and in the adjacent room. The samples from the commode,ventilator grill and the walls have been collected.