The Madras High Court on Friday rejected a plea for conducting a third postmortem in the case of the death of a schoolgirl in Kallakurichi, since an expert had said that dissecting the body multiple times might not yield any result.
Justice N. Sathish Kumar, however, constituted a team of three forensic science experts from Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer), Puducherry, to analyse the reports and videos of the first two postmortems.
The judge directed the team, comprising Kusa Kumar Shaha, Siddharth Das and Ambika Prasad Patra, all from the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology of Jipmer, to submit their opinion to the Villupuram Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) in a sealed cover within a month.
