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Tuesday, Apr 09, 2002

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Post-mortem conducted

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI APRIL 8. After a day's delay, the post-mortem of the 22-year-old woman, who was allegedly pushed from the terrace of a building at Rajasthali Apartment in North-West Delhi on April 4, was conducted yesterday. The body was handed over to the family later in the day.

A three-member medical board conducted the post-mortem at Babu Jagjiwan Ram Hospital, where the body had been preserved pending identification. "The panel will give its final opinion after surveying the site of the incident tomorrow,'' said the Deputy Commissioner of Police (North-West), R.P. Upadhyaya.

He added that police would be in a position to comment after the panel gives it final report. The post-mortem was to be conducted on Saturday, but had to be postponed by a day as one of the doctors in the panel did not turn up. The body of the woman had been identified by her parents on Friday when the news of the woman's death reached them through media. The woman had left her Safdarjung Enclave house on Wednesday evening and did not return. Her body was found on Thursday in Rajasthali Apartments complex.

Meanwhile, police are yet to make a breakthrough in identifying the accused.

Police scanned the mails exchanged on the internet between the deceased and Banni, son of a Rohini-based businessman, to whom she was reportedly engaged.

The mails revealed that they were having a relationship for the past one-and-a-half year and had a break up in February. Police wanted to analyse the mental state in which the deceased was at the time of the incident.

However, Banni had told police that he was never engaged to the deceased and only had an affair, which had soured of late.

"He has been claiming that he was not engaged. But, we are verifying the claims made by both the sides,'' Mr. Upadhyaya said.

Sources also said some persons from the Rajasthali Apartments were questioned in relation to the case.

Police have been maintaining that somebody from the complex might be involved or at least be in the know of the incident.

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