In its 12-page "Subsequent Medical Board Opinion", submitted to police on September 30, the panel of three AIIMS doctors had maintained that Sunanda died of poisoning but had reserved comment on giving specific details.
The medical board had said that the investigators did not provide various details of the case including photographs of the hotel room where Sunanda was found dead and other circumstantial evidence which would have helped them in reaching on specific conclusion about exact cause of death.
Asked whether Delhi Police will constitute a Special Investigative Team in the connection, he dismissed the possibility.
"When we would get a conclusive forensic opinion in the case, we would be able to reach a conclusion after studying both the forensic report and the facts available to us and an appropriate action will be taken," he said.
"Very competent police officers are investigating and supervising the case. We are taking competent action in this case and there is no such need (to constitute an SIT)," he said.
The new report by the three-member panel of doctors, who had conducted the autopsy on her, was prepared on the basis of the findings of the Centre Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) which had examined Sunanda's viscera.
The viscera report of CFSL in March had hinted at drug poisoning but police considered it as inconclusive. Police then asked AIIMS to re-examine the report and give its findings.
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