Rahul Raj was not shot from close range: Report

The bullets were not fired at from point blank range and could be classified as a long distance firing, the sources said.

Earlier, a doctor, who was involved in Raj8217;s autopsy, had said one of the bullets that hit him may have been fired at from a close range.

Raj, a resident of Patna, was killed in a shootout with the police after he held a bus with 12 passengers hostage in suburban Kurla on October 27. The killing sparked a furore with several parties demanding a judicial probe into the incident.

The doctor had said that some blackening found around a bullet wound could indicate that bullets were fired at him from a close range.

The doctor subsequently retracted his statement and police said there was no such report of blackening in the post-mortem report.

8220;Samples of skin from around the bullet wounds were sent to the Kalina Forensic Science Laboratory in order to assess the distance from which the bullets were fired,8221; the sources said.