Ex-sarpanch was poisoned: doctors

Sources said the police have sent the case file,including the statements of the doctors,to T D Dogra,the head of the Forensic Medicine Department at All India Institute of Medical Sciences,New Delhi,for his opinion on the exact cause of death.

Dogra had earlier told the police that he would be able to give his opinion only after going through the post mortem report and also the statements of the doctors who conducted the examination.

A day before his death on June 7,Karam Singh had,in a complaint to CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda,levelled corruption charges against then chief parliamentary secretary to the government,Zile Ram Sharma,and then transport minister O P Jain. After his death,his son Rajinder Singh had accused Sharma and Jain of plotting his fathers death.