Family members of the slain NRI student Anmol Sarna pointed fingers at police investigation during a Press conference in the Capital on Saturday evening. Alleging faults by the police, the family of 21-year-old Sarna questioned the details of investigation into his death.
A fortnight after the incident, the Sarnas, apart from questioning the arrests of two security guards in Kalkaji’s South Park Apartment, reiterated their demands for a CBI enquiry and the sequence of events on the fateful night based on the post-mortem report.
“No matter what the police has been saying, Anmol’s post-mortem report clearly indicates the fact that there were injuries inflicted to his head well before he was made to leave the flat where the party was going on,” claimed Sushma Sarna, his mother. “Besides, my son was a tall, well-built boy for his age. How could security guards as short as Naresh Mishra and Surender Bali have inflicted such severe injuries to his head given his physical statureIJ” she asked.
Two days after the party where Anmol, having consumed lSD, had mysteriously died after a “bad trip”, six men, including Mishra and Bali had been arrested. While four of Anmol’s friends — Shivank Gambhir, Madhav Bhandari, Ritham Girhotra and Pranil Shah — were arrested for having procured and consumed lSD, which is banned under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, Bali and Mishra had been arrested for culpable homicide.
“We reiterate our demand for a CBI probe into the case,” said Sarna’s father, Anil. “There is enough proof which points to the fact that my son was assaulted by his own friends and killed as part of a premeditated conspiracy.” Sarna, who recently graduated from a high school in New York and visiting his extended family in Greater Kailash with his parents over the last six months, had succumbed to a fatal head injury at AIIMS around 2.30 am on September 14.