Thursday: Pakistan on Thursday shared the autopsy reports on two Indian prisoners - Sarabjit Singh and Chamel Singh.
While the autopsy report on Chamel Singh did not define the cause of his death, the report on Sarabjit listed his cause of death as head injury caused by blunt weapon.
Chamel had died in a Lahore jail under mysterious circumstances. His autopsy was conducted only two months after his death.
The autopsy on Sarabjit, who died in a Lahore hospital after being brutally attacked by his jail inmates, was conducted by doctors right after his death on May 2....
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08:10 PM, May 09, 2013
Amritsar: Doctors at the Amritsar Government Medical College who conducted the second autopsy on Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh revealed that his vital organs - stomach, heart, kidneys and gall bladder - were missing in his body. "The following viscera was not present in the body of Sarabjit Singh, namely, stomach, gall bladder, heart and kidneys," the doctors told mediapersons, adding that the other viscera present in the body had been...
04:59 PM, May 03, 2013
Ghaziabad: The autopsy report of the murder suspect who allegedly hanged himself in police custody in Ghaziabad on Sunday has revealed that he was strangled to death. Additional Director General (ADG) of Uttar Pradesh Police Arun Kumar said on Monday: "Five Indirapuram police station personnel have been suspended and a case of murder has been filed against unidentified people." He said that Inspector Gorakh Nath Yadav, Sub-inspector Rajvir Singh, night...
07:48 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Cairo: Clashes between Egyptian Muslims and Christians erupted early Saturday in a town near Cairo, leaving at least five people dead, security officials said. Investigators said they were waiting for autopsy reports to confirm how the men - four Christians and a Muslim - were killed in the small town of Khosoos, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the capital. President Mohammed Morsi's office released a statement condemning the...
07:20 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, whose body was found in the locked bathroom of his luxury mansion near London over the weekend, died by hanging, British police said on Monday. An autopsy showed no signs of a violent struggle but further tests would be carried out, including toxicology and histology examinations, police said. ...
10:40 AM, Mar 26, 2013
British police on Sunday said they have no evidence to suggest third-party involvement in the death of Boris Berezovsky, the self-exiled Russian tycoon who went from Kremlin kingmaker to fiery critic. ...
08:10 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Autopsy of Indian-origin businessman Urooj Khan, who died in 2012 after winning a $1 million jackpot, found no trace of cyanide in his body apparently because it dissolves quickly, a medical examiner has said. "The route of administration of cyanide cannot be confirmed in the autopsy," Dr Stephen Cina, the Cook County Medical examiner, told reporters at a news conference in Chicago on Friday. ...
12:52 PM, Mar 02, 2013
Los Angeles: Whitney Houston drowned in a hot bathtub in a Beverly Hills hotel room with cocaine in her system and white powder nearby, a final coroner's report revealed on Wednesday. Detectives found white powdery substances, a rolled-up piece of paper, a small spoon and a mirror in the bathroom shortly after Houston's naked body was found face down in the bathtub on February 11, the 40-page Los Angeles County...
03:42 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Tuesday confirmed the post-mortem report of Ministry of Defence official Kumar Yashkar Sinha, saying that he died due to burning, while his wife, Archana was strangulated to death. Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said, "The post-mortem report reveals that Archana was strangulated to death. She received other injuries while she was being strangulated. "Kumar Yashkar Sinha died due to burning..." The spokesman added, "It...
06:40 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: The autopsy report of Defence Ministry official Kumar Yashkar Sinha says Kumar Yashkar died of suffocation due to burns. The Delhi Police have received the report. Preliminary medical investigations had suggested that no external or internal injuries other than burn injuries were found on the victim. The police are now probing if Yashkar was under any sort of financial burden other than the work pressure. The police are...
04:02 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Midnapore: Slain top Maoist leader Kishenji was shot six times and had received two splinter wounds during the the fatal encounter with security forces in West Midnapore district, according to autopsy reports. The bullets hit him in the chin, head, chest and other parts of the body, doctors, who conducted the autopsy, said. One of the shots appeared to have been fired from long-range of around 500 m, they added....
02:40 PM, Nov 27, 2011
London: Previously unseen footage of Michael Jackson's 1993 'Dangerous' tour, which had been expected to fetch 4-5 million pounds ($6.2-7.8 million) failed to sell at auction in Britain on Saturday. "At this stage it has not sold," said a spokesman for The Fame Bureau auctioneers, who specialise in pop memorabilia. "We are still talking to people, but online it did not sell." He said he was confident a buyer would...
01:32 PM, Nov 27, 2011
Benghazi: Racing to fill a power vacuum and prevent a descent into lawlessness, Libya is to proclaim its war over on Sunday and start building the ballot box democracy Muammar Gaddafi once saw as fit for "donkeys". Tens of thousands who before this year's revolt had known nothing but Gaddafi's all-powerful police state are due to pack a square in the second city Benghazi to hear interim government leader Mustafa...
08:39 PM, Oct 23, 2011
New Delhi: Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi died of a gunshot wound to the head, confirmed an autopsy report on Sunday. The autopsy was carried out in Misrata and sources are now saying that the body will be returned to the commercial freezer in the city where it was put up for public display earlier. Libyan forensic doctors carried out an autopsy overnight on the body of Gaddafi, who was killed...
03:21 PM, Oct 23, 2011
New Delhi: Dr V Dekal has filed his nomination as an independent candidate from Maduravoyal constituency for the Tamil Nadu polls. Dr V Dekal, a forensic surgeon, had conducted the postmortem of A Raja's aide Sadiq Batcha. The Tamil Nadu government had earlier rejected the resignation of the doctor who had conducted the postmortem on the body of Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of former Union Telecom Minister A Raja....
07:06 PM, Mar 26, 2011
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government has rejected the resignation of the doctor who had conducted the postmortem on the body of Sadik Batcha, a close aide of former Union Telecom Minister A Raja. Batcha, who was under the CBI scanner, was found hanging at his house here on March 16 with his wife claiming that he had committed suicide "unable to cope with the 2G probe." The Directorate of Public...
11:40 AM, Mar 25, 2011
Chennai: The doctor, who conducted autopsy on the body of former Telecom Minister A Raja's aide Sadiq Batcha, has resigned but said it has nothing to with the case as he plans to contest elections. Though reports of his resignation came days after the death of Batcha on Wednesday last, Dr V Dekal said he had put in his papers in the first week of March as he had intended...
02:14 PM, Mar 21, 2011
Bhopal: A man was forced to carry the body of his 16 year old daughter on his bicycle for 14 kilometres, for an autopsy in Madhya Pradesh. Bakshu Singh's daughter committed suicide by consuming poison at her house in village Dudhmania. The Police refused to allow Bakshu Singh to perform the last rights of his daughter until the postmortem was done. But they refused to take the body to the...
11:38 PM, Jan 11, 2011
Los Angeles: Executors of Michael Jackson's estate on Wednesday asked a TV network to cancel a program reenacting the singer's autopsy, calling it "in shockingly bad taste". "Your decision to even schedule this program is in shockingly bad taste, insensitive to Michael family and appears to be motivated solely by your blind desire to exploit Michael's death," co-executors John Branca and John McClain wrote in a letter to Discovery Communications....
05:27 PM, Dec 30, 2010
The Discovery Channel's controversial programme Michael Jackson's Autopsy is said to be based on the official coroner's report and court documents taken after the Thriller hitmaker's death in 2009. It is due to air in Britain on Jan 13. The show will follow a pathologist as he performs a full autopsy on a synthetic cadaver and exposes the "medical myths that surrounded Jackson throughout his troubled life, his drug addiction,...
10:32 AM, Dec 13, 2010
