Post mortem row: CM demands full report

LUDHIANA, Oct 28: The district administration last evening sent a detailed report to Chief Minister P S Badal about the controversy invol...

LUDHIANA, Oct 28: The district administration last evening sent a detailed report to Chief Minister P S Badal about the controversy involving the registration of complaints in the Daily Dairy Report of the Sarabha Nagar Police Station, though the DC denied that the report had been sent.

DC Arun Goel told The Indian Express, 8220;The body was lying there for 15 hours without a post-mortem being conducted and even after I requested them to put up papers for my signatures to release the body, the papers were not put up. I do not know on whose orders the body was finally released without a post-mortem8221;.

Sources in the DC office said that in the morning the CM had called up Deputy Commissioner Arun Goel and SSP Dinkar Gupta and demanded a full report about the incident. They further added that later in the afternoon a meeting was held between the DC and SSP in the former8217;s office where the roznamcha8217; record was placed before the DC.

Sources added that a detailed report of the incident was sent to the CM Office later in the evening. Insiders said the CM office had taken cognisance of the report published in The Indian Express and had expressed his displeasure over the incident. They added that the CM was upset the way the two main departments of the govt were locked in a controversy over a post mortem report.

Meanwhile, the relatives of Dinesh Goel, whose death had started the controversy, called up the Indian Express office here and said that the body was released without post mortem by the Rajasthan police. They denied that they were the relatives of the DC.

Meanwhile, the police said the Station House Officer does not have the power to release the body if the case was not registered in his territory. Only the officials from the concerned thana8217; have the powers to release the body with the victims parents or close relatives present at the hospital while conducting the post mortem.