Lucknow: Man bleeds to death from deep gash, spurs whodunit

LUCKNOW: A 31-year-old manager of a private hospital bled to death from an hitherto unexplained stab-like wound in his stomach received at his Vishwas Khand home in Gomtinagar in the small hours of Wednesday.

Family members found Vishwajeet Singh Pundir without clothes and bleeding profusely from the deep gash. He was rushed to hospital, but did not respond to treatment.The postmortem report mentions “shock and haemorrhage caused by excessive bleeding” as the cause of his death.
A murder case has been lodged against unidentified persons based on the complaint of family members. Police are scanning Pundir’s phone records and an accident angle is also being probed.
Police said the youth worked in Mahanagar and lived in Gomtinagar with mother Mangla, elder brother Indrajeet, his wife Poonam and their daughter Bani.
Vikas, a servant, also lives with the family.
On Tuesday, Pundir came home around 9.30pm and retired to his room on the second floor. Around 1.30am (Wednesday), Mangla said she heard him banging on her door and screaming, “Mujhe bacha lo… main bed par se gir gaya hoon (Help me… I have fallen off the bed)”. She found him slumped at her door without clothes, covering the stomach wound with a towel. With the help of others, he was taken to hospital.
Police were informed around 4.15am. A team led by SP (North) Sukirti Madhav Mishra and forensic experts reached the house. Puddles of blood were found all the way from Pundir’s room to that of his mother’s, besides near the backyard gate.
SHO, Gomtinagar, RS Sonkar said cigarettes, ganja and beer cans were found in Pundir’s room. “It is possible he was high, lost control and fell from the second floor balcony. He may have been impaled on the iron railing over the boundary wall.”
The only problem with this accident theory is that the forensic team found no blood on the iron railing or the boundary wall. The team has though collected a strand of hair from near the backyard gate. SP Mishra said postmortem revealed a 10cm piercing in the stomach and a punctured heart. Two wounds were clinically seen on the body, one in the stomach and another on the back. “We are probing if it is a case of accident or murder,” he said.
Cabinet minister Jai Pratap Singh visited Pundir’s family on Wednesday morning. He asked police to thoroughly investigate the murder angle.