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Unveiling Truths: Why Every Death Deserves an Autopsy

November 18, 2024

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Need for Autopsy in every death –

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Since India is a land of water bodies, hence the acquaintance with Ponds, Canals, Rivers, Seas & Ocean is been considered as a genetic inheritance. None was the exception for Sambashiva, a School Teacher. He was in his early fifties, and for the last 45 years it was mandatory for him to stroll on the banks of a canal in proximity to his residence. The flowing water was an embodiment of vitality. Sambashiva was married to Vashundhara, and blessed to have two daughters – Aaghnya and Aakarsha.

Devoted to scholastics, Sambashiva usually leaves for his school around 08.00 immediately after having breakfast. Vashundhara, a dedicated homemaker seldom complained about discharging the stereotype household chores. But as the great Eleanor Roosevelt had quoted, “If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavour.” Vashundhara’s social intermingling, particularly with the fairer gender was, “False friendship, like ivy, decaying and ruining the walls they embraced”.

As Gossips are Devils Radio – watch outs for the joy-stealers: criticism, complaining, fault finding, and a negative, judgmental attitude. It was the persistent venom pitting which had stinked Vashundhara quite often – “it was your husband’s inefficiency, that you were deprived of becoming a mother of two sons”. This systematic venomisation soon created rifts among the couple – taking no time in the emerging of a deadly family feud.

Sambashiva started being celibacy from conjugal fondness, refrained from social gatherings, although abreast of fatherly deeds. The family feud worsened leading to the unprecedented death of Sambashiva.

Vashundhara had filed for an Accidental Death Claim pertinent to her husband citing a narrative that her husband Sambashiva’s body has been recovered from a canal by the police department, days after remaining missing from his own house.

The Insurance Company while delving in the investigation, contacted the claimant Vashundhara; had an in-depth discussion where the claimant reiterated the fact that, “her husband on a fine morning had been to his school, from where he went absconding. The family had tried desperately to come in touch, but in vain Sambashiva did not pick up their calls. Later, they got an intimation from someone that Sambashiva’s cell phone was found from one corner of the school’s playground. After 03 days she was intimated by the local police authorities that Sambashiva’s dead body was found from the canal. It is the same canal where Sambashiva used to stroll regularly since his childhood”.

After completing the formalities with the deceased’s family, the insurance company now turned heads, and contacted the local police authorities for obtaining necessary legal documents enabling to process the claim. The Police Complaint, subsequent Inquest Report; Spot Panchanama were impeccable to be evident that it was not an accidental death. Those reports triggered suspicious foul play but far from an evidence.

Then, it was the Post Mortem Report that which had turned the investigating procedure topsy-turvy. The Forensic Expert while dissecting the stomach found that, “the food items present was undigested, and the time of death was four hours preceding the autopsy”. The Insurance Company then decided to conduct a discreet enquiry amongst the neighbours about the truth.

They were the same neighbours who had contemplated about the inefficiency of Sambashiva in reproducing Boy Child; this time pleading to the devil’s advocate narrating the de-facto – the family feud, and subsequent homicidal suicide by Sambashiva on the specified date. They had complained that Sambashiva was living a weird life amidst torrid time; not being able to cope with the non-intermittent squabbles jumped into the canal, which he used to consider to be an embodiment of vitality.

The Accidental Death Benefit claim was repudiated by the Insurance Company – as homicidal suicide is a self-explanatory cause for such repudiation. This was only possible by the virtue of an impeccable Autopsy Analysis.

To be continued…………