The saga of the mysterious death of an upcoming music director Thumma Anil Reddy, 35, continues as the Cyberabad police on Tuesday, prepared to exhumed the body for a third time on the directions of the High court.
‘Perhaps this is the first time in India after Independence that a post mortem has been conducted thrice on a body. Since there was no transperancy in the first two reports and they are contradictory, need for a third post-mortem has risen,’ says Anil’s friend K Sai Kumar.
His brother Prakash Reddy had pproached the High Court about two weeks ago to file a petition requesting for another post-mortem. The Court then directed the Cyberabad Commissioer of Police to select doctors other than those who had conducted the earlier post-mortems and to submit a report before the Court within two weeks.
His family, distressed by the ongoing investigation, has stressed that the body will now be permanently interred, irrespective of the outcome of the autopsy.
The third autopsy was conducted at the Bhoiguda cemetery by two independent forensic doctors; one from Kurnool and another from Warangal. The doctors refused to divulge any preliminary details and said their report would be submitted to the high court. However, they added that while they would look at the photographs taken in the earlier postmortems, they would not be influenced by the revelations in the reports.
Assistant commissioner of police (Crime) Cyberabad, M S Venu Gopal Rao, who is investigating the case, was present at the cemetery when the postmortem was done.
Two postmortems have already been conducted. The first one said his death was due to a head injury, while the second one said it was due to brain haemorrhage.
Anil’s brother Prakash Reddy told after the postmortem that the family was pained by the fact that Anil’s body had to be disturbed thrice to find out the cause of his death.