Tapan, who was detained on April 26 from Punjab along with his accomplice Sonu Bishnoi, accused of supplying guns and bullets for the shooting, was found dead in the jail’s lockup. Criminal Division Wednesday at Crawford Market. He allegedly hanged himself with a bed sheet in the toilet of the detention center, according to police.
“The autopsy was conducted at the state-run JJ Hospital in Byculla on Thursday evening. According to the report, there were ligature marks on his neck and signs of suffocation, all of which confirmed that he died of hanging,” a police official said.
He said the doctor who conducted the autopsy had reserved his opinion and that the deceased’s internal organs, tissues and other samples had been preserved for forensic and chemical analysis, as well as the organs for histopathology.
“Blocked CCTV footage shows Tappan entering the toilet alone. This is a clear case suicide,” another official said.
Meanwhile, Tapan’s maternal grandfather Jashwant Singh (54), two relatives and a lawyer, who arrived in Mumbai from Punjab in the early hours of the day, refused to claim his body for last rites and sought a
Central Bureau of Investigation detection. “We were asked to identify the body. As per our request, when the hospital staff showed us his face, we found ligature marks on the neck. Seeing these marks, it became clear to us that he was murdered after being tortured, “Singer said.
“We will not accept the bodies until the demands (of the CBI investigation) are fulfilled. If they are accepted, then we will claim the bodies by tomorrow. There must be a CBI investigation and the police personnel involved in the death must be punished,” Singh added .
Singh said the police called them (relatives) at 3 pm on Wednesday to inform them of Tappan’s death.
Four people including Tapan, Sonu Bishnoi, gunman Sagar Pal and Vicky Gupta were arrested in connection with the shooting, while the gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi According to police, he and his brother Anmol Bishnoi have been listed as wanted persons
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