New Delhi-based AIIMS Additional Professor in FMT Department Dr Sanjiv lalwani on Thursday deposed before the Justice PK Mohanty Commission of Inquiry probing into the sensational Pipili gang-rape and murder case of 2011-12.
Sticking to the earlier stand of the AIIMS team, which examined the victim in January 2012, lalwani said no advance medical technology is available in India to conclusively give an opinion whether the victim was raped or not examining her after two months.
It may be mentioned that a four-member team of doctors from New Delhi had examined the victim at the Cuttack hospital on January 29, 2012, exactly two months after she was allegedly gang raped in her native village in Pipili on November 28, 2011.
The AIIMS team had, however, not given any definite opinion whether the 19-year-old girl was raped or not. But twisting the facts, the State Crime Branch police filed the charge-sheet in the case expressing its inability to substantiate the allegation of rape mainly because the victim was unable to give any statement for she had slipped into coma ever since she was allegedly gang raped. She died in June 2012.
lalwani, however, categorically told the commission that the anti-venom serum that was injected to the victim at the Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar, where she was initially taken for treatment, might not be the reason for pushing the victim into comatose state.
The commission would hold its next sitting on September 27, and in the meantime, it directed the SCB Medical College Hospital authorities here to submit the medico-legal case (MlC) dispatch register of the hospital, which would be vetted to look into the allegations leveled against the Mangalabag police, under whose jurisdiction the hospital comes.
Meanwhile, in a reply to the commission on the day, the Government informed that it has no objection if the commission obtains the call detail records (CDRs) of former police inspector of Pipili PS Amulya Kumar Champatiray from the telephone service provider.