This story is from June 26, 2011

'Impossible to inflict injuries with half blade'

Can the half blade found few feet away from the spot, where the former deputy chief medical officer Dr Yogendra Singh Sachan was found dead, could inflict such deep gashes on anyone? Impossible say medical experts, who though firmly believe that whosoever inflicted the injuries had a medical expertise.
'Impossible to inflict injuries with half blade'
LUCKNOW: Can the half blade found few feet away from the spot, where the former deputy chief medical officer Dr Yogendra Singh Sachan was found dead, could inflict such deep gashes on anyone? Impossible say medical experts, who though firmly believe that whosoever inflicted the injuries had a medical expertise. Although Dr Sachan was a medical expert, he could not have inflicted injuries so deep with a half blade.
Besides, the injuries cause by the half blade couldn't be so clean and precise, medical experts believe.
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Now the question arises, why and how a half blade was found that too a few feet away from the spot.
An expert preferring anonymity said that the injury on the neck and near the groin, with clean cuts prove that either a big scalpel (surgical blade) or a knife was used. So, why was the surgical blade or knife not found from the spot? Another question arises, that have the investigators looked into the commode for the weapon, assuming that it might have fallen in the commode, as Dr Sachan was first spotted by a jail staff in a sitting position on the commode of the unused toilet.
Radial arteries like external carotid and femoral artery pass from the spots, where the injuries have been maximum. Both the arteries come through heart and thus injury to these arteries would result in maximum blood loss, the medical experts said and added that damage to only one artery could be fatal. In fact the death would be smooth, as the blood loss could lead to a slow death in 30 to 40 minutes.
Now, the question is, why will Dr Yogendra Singh Sachan inflict so many injuries one by one, when even one injury on any of two major injury spots could have ended his life?

Total ante-mortem injuries, the post-mortem stated was eight. The ninth injury as per the post-mortem report stated is the ligature mark caused by the tightening of a belt around the neck, which had been inflicted after the death of Dr Sachan. This has further questioned the suicide theory, medical experts believe. Assuming that Dr Sachan tried to hang himself before cutting his veins, but, failed.
If this was the case, there should have been petechi injury, medical expert said and added that this injury is actually blood clotting beneath the skin, which can be detected during post-mortem examination. Since, there is no mention of any such injury, it can be very well assumed that there was no petechi injury. This indicates that the belt was tightened around the neck after the death of Dr Sachan. Medical experts say at least after five to 10 minutes after the death of Dr Sachan.
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