Koppiyam – Satish Kumar Death

Alleging that there were several missing links in the case relating to the death of advocate Sankara Subbu’s son Sathish Kumar, forensics expert P Chandrasekaran has disputed the claims of the CBI, according to which the victim had committed suicide. Among the various issues Chandrasekaran raised with the CBI’s report was the four deep cut injuries on the neck, about 2.1 centimetres deep and 12 centimetres long, made with a half-blade. “A half-blade will be just one-cm wide and therefore causing such a deep cut with it is not possible. Also making four such cuts is impossible. An injury of this nature can be caused only with a knife, barber’s razor, pen knife or a surgical knife – all those that have a handle,” he said. Chandrasekaran, who claims to have seen the CBI report, further said that the diatom tests done in two different labs showed that it was not a death due to drowning. He said the diatoms (algae) present in water would enter the body of a person if he/she dies due to drowning. “In Sathish Kumar’s case, the diatoms were not present in his body, which proves that the victim did not die due to drowning,” he claimed. The body of Sathish Kumar, son of advocate Sankara Subbu, who was reported missing since June 7, 2011, was fished out from the ICF North Colony Lake on June 13, 2011. The expert, who claimed that in this case there was no medico-legal committee present as per a court order when the second post-mortem was done, also said that maggots were found in …
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