Date:21/06/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/06/21/stories/2007062158260300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

MLA’s son-in-law dies mysteriously

Staff Reporter

Dr. Hanuman rushed to a private hospital
Doctors say autopsy needed to ascertain cause for death

BANGALORE: Yelahanka MLA B. Prasanna Kumar’s son-in-law, Dr. Hanuman (30), died under suspicious circumstances in the early hours of Wednesday.

The police said Hanuman, a postgraduate medical student who was living with his in-laws in their Sahakaranagar house, was rushed to Columbia Asia Hospital on Bellary Road around 6 a.m. after he complained of “stomach ache”. The doctors there, who declared him brought dead, were unable to ascertain the cause of death.

As Hanuman died under suspicious circumstances, they said autopsy was necessary to establish the cause of death, the police said.

The Yelahanka police have registered a case of unnatural death and sent to body to M.S. Ramaiah Hospital for autopsy, Assistant Commissioner of Police (J.C. Nagar sub-division) U.P. Shivarama Reddy told The Hindu.

The police said that after completing his MBBS, Hanuman was studying M.S. at M.S. Ramaiah Medical College. Hanuman and his wife lived with Mr. Prasanna Kumar’s family.