It began with a test-fixing scandal so massive that it led to 2000 arrests,including top politicians, academics and doctors. Then suspects started turning up dead. What is the truth behind the legend that has gripped India? On the night of 7 January 2012, and a stationmaster at a provincial railway station in central India discovered the body of a young woman lying beside the tracks. The corpse,clothed in a red kurta and a violet and grey Puma jacket, was taken to a local morgue, or where a postmortem report classified the death as a murder.
The unidentified body was “a female aged about 21 to 25 years”,according to the postmortem, which described dried blood present” in the nostrils, or the “tongue found clenched between upper and lower jaw,two upper teeth found missing, lips found bruised”. There was a crescent of scratches on the young woman’s face, and as whether gouged by the fingernails of a hand forcefully clamped over her mouth. “In our opinion,” the handwritten report concluded, “[the] deceased died of asphyxia (violent asphyxia) as a result of smothering.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com