Kolkata cops wait for NOC from Punjab to hand over bodies

KOLKATA: A three-hour post mortem headed by senior forensic sciences officials at RG Kar Hospital, which found multiple gunshot injuries on the bodies of the two gangsters that had punctured their vital organs, was completed by Thursday afternoon. However, the bodies couldn’t be handed over to the family members of the two men till late on Friday night.
Gangster Jaipal Singh Bhullar’s father Bhupinder had arrived in Kolkata on Thursday itself and was seen making rounds of the RG Kar morgue and the New Town Techno City police station till late in the night.On Friday, Jaspreet Singh Jassi’s family and more friends and family members of Bhullar arrived, who also did the same but with little result.
Cops said there was a delay in getting a ‘no objection certificate’ from Punjab police to hand over the bodies to the families and also because of the fact that a team of ballistics experts had to check and collect samples from the bodies on Friday as well. Cops, though, said that the families will be able to take the bodies back to Punjab on Saturday.
“The cops made us sit at the police station for hours but couldn’t give any clarity behind the delay in handing over the body or at least a time frame by when we will get it. Jaipal’s father got sick and spent the day at a Gurdwara while we did all the running around but with little result,” said Narendra Pal Singh, a family friend of the Bhullars.
The family members of Jaspreet Singh Jassi also wondered if efforts could have been made to arrest the duo rather than killing them. “Jassi was an exceptional footballer. We don’t know how he got involved in crime. We knew he was travelling to expand his business of used car sales. He hadn’t visited home in nine months, though,” said a family member.
The autopsy team at RG Kar Medical College had three doctors from the forensic medicine department — Somnath Das, Somabrata Panja and Debasish Som.
“We have also preserved DNA samples, viscera, particles from the stomach and other blood samples. Both the bodies had multiple bullet injuries,” said Somnath Das, the forensic medicine head. Doctors said the entire autopsy procedure was video-graphed as per National Human Rights Commission protocol.