The family of a 19-year-old woman receptionist who was killed in Uttarakhand allegedly by her employer refused on September 25 to conduct her last rites until they get the final postmortem details, even as a preliminary report said she died due to drowning.
The draft report released by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, also said antemortem injuries (injuries before death) have been found on Ankita Bhandari's body, suggestive of a blunt force trauma. However, she died of drowning, said the preliminary report.
Bhandari's body was recovered from the Cheela canal close to Rishikesh early on Saturday, six days after her parents found her missing from her room. The postmortem was conducted by a four-member team of doctors at AIIMS on Saturday.
