MUMBAI, March 5: The medical officer who conducted the post-mortem examination on Javed Fawda's body revealed to the inquiry into the police encounters on Thursday that Fawda was fired at from a long range.The witness, Dr Vijay Kalvekar, attached to the Coroner's Court at J J Hospital, when questioned by the Mumbai police counsel Shrikant Bhat, denied that the spot where the bullet had entered Fawda's body had any tattoos. The doctor said marks normally appear around the wound when the bullet is fired from a close range. These marks appear due to carbon particles which get embedded around the bullet wound, he said adding that there were external as well as internal bullet injuries.After examining the bullet injuries, Kalvekar testified, it is possible to say if the victim was moving at the time of receiving the injuries. However, he was unable to mention the speed at which the bullet travelled through the body. He said that after the examination was over, he handed over two bullets with two vials ofblood to the police to be forwarded to the Forensic Science Laboratory under sealed copies and cover.Earlier, during cross-examination conducted by P M Pradhan, counsel for the National Human Rights Commission, police sub inspector Bandu Bhosale said he had confirmed that the complaint on missing person had gone for publication in the police notice after it was lodged by Fawda's sister the previous day at Bandra police station. In the cross-examination by Samajwadi Party counsel Majeed Memon, Bhosale said that he had not recorded anywhere the fact that he had sent police constable to Rubina's residence on September 2 and 4 for making enquiries.
