Tomar had injuries, says post mortem as row rages over death

The Delhi Police late in the evening released excerpts of report of the post mortem done by a Board of Doctors in the the government Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital, where he died yesterday.

Following contradictory versions, Delhi Police asked its Crime Branch to investigate the case in which murder charges have been invoked.

"Myocardial infarction (cardiac arrest) and its complications that could be precipitated by multiple ante-mortem (before death) injuries to neck and chest produced by blunt force impact," Additional Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) K C Dwivedi said quoting from the report as the cause of 47-year-old Tomar's death.

The Delhi Police statement came on a day when various claims emerged about the cause of Tomar's death with two eye- witnesses claiming that they did not spot any injuries on his person when they tried to revive him after he collapsed near India Gate on Sunday during violent protests against the gangrape of a girl in a moving bus on December 16.

To add to this, Medical Superintendent of RML Dr T S Sidhu, said, there were "no major external injury marks except for some cuts and bruises. ..In all our records, there are no severe internal injuries recorded but the post-mortem will tell everything." MORE