The body of Ritu Yadav, a first year B Tech student, who committed suicide in Greater Noida on April 20, was cremated at her home town at Kannauj, 36 days after her demise. Before the last rites, a panel of doctors carried out a second autopsy.
The body which had been preserved with herbs in an orchard pit in her native village, was taken out on Tuesday evening in the presence of Investigation Officer Ajay Kumar Sharma of Kasna police station (Noida), ADM (Sadar) Kannauj Sunil Kumar Shukla and family and friends.
This was necessitated after IO, Ajay Kumar Sharma requested the Kannauj administration for a second autopsy. The imemdiate family suspected it to be a case of murder and had refused to cremate the body. The autopsy report is likely to be handed over to the police officer this week.
Ritu's father reiterated on Wednesday that her daughter had not committed suicide and it was a cold blooded murder. Villagers and relatives alleged that the Noida Police was concealing facts and were not investigating the case properly.
However the police clarified that it had it had registered a case of abetment to suicide on the basis of Ritu's suicide note. Ritu's four four flatmates Richa, Vijaya, Priti and Samra have already been sent to jail.
On April 20, Ritu had jumped off the 7th floor of her apartment in NRI City after a tiff. The 19-year-old reportedly ended her life a day after being confronted by flatmates for alleged shoplifting. She was a first year Computer Science student at an engineering college in Greater Noida.