The body was received in 7 separate parts namely:
1. Major part of vault of the skull was separated from rest of head at a level corresponding to supra orbital margin all around. Bone margins of skull thus separated showed multiple fractures yet were loosely attached to one another. The edges of broken bone were rough and uneven.
2. Both the upper limbs were transacted at a level 3 cm below tip of shoulders (bilaterally). The Humerii were exposed and transected at the same level.
3. Right hand was transected and separated from rest of right upper limb at the level of wrist. Lower ends of both bones forearm on right side were transected and exposed at same level.
4. Both thighs were transected and separated from rest of the lower limbs at a level situated 12 cm above knee joint with both femurs transected and exposed at same level.
In all above separations, margins were rough and irregular and no infiltration of blood was seen in exposed trabeculae of fractured bones. As is clearly observed from the above description all the so-called rail track injuries were post mortem.
On inspection of the neck area which was totally intact, the following injuries were seen:
(a) Diffuse contusion of size 2x1 cm in front of neck (anterior) on right side about 3 cm to right of midline which was obliquely placed. Roughly oval in outline. On dissection, base was found to be congested while underlying neck structures were ecchymosed deep down.
(b) Diffuse contusion in left side of neck, 5 cm to left of midline, of size 4.5 x 3 cm which was obliquely placed and with an irregular outline. On dissection, base was congested with underlying neck structures ecchymosed.
On dissection of neck, the hyoid bone was seen to have an internal compression fracture at the junction of outer 1/3rd and inner 2/3rd on right side with infiltration of blood into trabeculae of fractured bone.
(c) Multiple diffuse contusions over anterior chest wall on both sides of sizes varying between 4 x 2.5 to 2 x 0.5 cm. Underlying tissues were ecchymosed.
The stomach and other viscera were congested with stomach containing about 100 cc of brownish fluid with gastric mucosa congested.
Thus with the detailed examination of the body it was concluded that the deceased had first been poisoned, then throttled and his dead body was laid in a railway track to get transected by a train thereby showing cause of death to be suicide.
Later on the investigating agencies caught the culprits who confessed to the crime and stated the similar sequence of events (as opined by us) that ultimately led to a horrible death and subsequent concealing and planting of evidence. The deceased was hobnobbing with the factory authorities on one side and with the union on the other and this led a faction of mill workers and the management to get him out of the way.
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