Guwahati, May 24 (). The body of IIT Kharagpur alumnus Faizan Ahmed was exhumed by a special team of officials for a second post-mortem following a court order. Ahmed’s family has alleged that the institute is trying to influence the investigation.
Ahmed, a mechanical engineering student, was found dead in his hostel of IIT Kharagpur on October 14 last year. Institute officials claimed that he had committed suicide, while Ahmed’s family alleged that their son was murdered.
The family filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court regarding Ahmed’s unnatural death. Ahmed was a resident of Dibrugarh district of Assam. Recently, the Calcutta High Court ordered exhumation of the body and a second post-mortem. After the consent of Faizan Ahmed’s family, his body was exhumed on Tuesday.
In the presence of a four-member police team from West Bengal’s Kharagpur Town police station, forensic experts from Assam Medical College and Guwahati Medical College excavated the grave at the cemetery at Amolpatti in Dibrugarh town and exhumed the body.
On this occasion, the relatives of the deceased student, local police and magistrate Gautam Priya Mahant were also present. The body was first kept in the mortuary of Dibrugarh. After this, on Wednesday, officials of the special team along with the family took the dead body to Kolkata.
Meanwhile, it is learned that a team from IIT Kharagpur was also insisting on being present during the excavation process, but it was strongly opposed by the family of the deceased student. Family members told reporters here that the IIT Kharagpur authorities were trying to derail the investigation.
Significantly, the decomposed body of 23-year-old Faizan Ahmed was found on October 14 last year in room C-205 of Lala Lajpat Rai Hall of Residence of the institute campus. Two days later, his body was buried at the Amolpatti cemetery in Dibrugarh city.
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