In FIR, police say Loitam was punched

BANGALORE: In a major step towards cracking the Richard Loitam case, police filed an FIR saying the architecture student from Manipur was found dead in his hostel room on April 17, a day after he was beaten and punched by two of his hostel mates, Vishal Banerjee and Syed Afzal Ali.
All three were students of Acharya NRV School of Architecture, Chikkabanavara, off Tumkur Road, and residents of the college hostel at Madanayakanahalli nearby.Loitam, 19, was a 2nd-semester student.
The move came even as the Forensic Sciences Laboratory submitted a report on chemical analysis of the student’s visceral samples. Police said they have forwarded the report to Victoria Hospital, where histopathological tests on Loitam’s body parts are on.