CHENNAI: Amid tight security, the autopsy on 25-year-old law graduate Satish Kumar’s body - fished out of a lake on June 13 - was performed by an experts’ panel and handed over to his family on Wednesday. The youth had been reported missing since June 7.As per a Madras High Court order, a three-member team of forensic experts comprising Dr P Murugesan of Kilpauk Medical College, Dr B Shantakumar of Madras Medical College and Dr P Sampath Kumar of Sri Ramachandra Medical College, performed the postmortem that started around 8 am and ended three hours later. Investigating Officer Suresh Babu was present and the entire procedure was videographed, sources said.Outside the KMCH, where the body had been brought for postmortem, barricades were erected and a large posse of police personnel deployed for security. The legal fraternity was present in full strength as Satish Kumar’s father Shankarasubbu was a senior advocate of the High Court and the victim, a law graduate.The body, which was later handed over to the family, was taken in an ambulance to the Shankarasubbu’s house in Thangam Colony, Anna Nagar West. Lawyers raised slogans against the police. Additional Commissioner of Police (L&O) P Thamaraikannan told Express that they were awaiting a copy of the postmortem report submitted to the High Court. “While special police teams are already probing the case from all angles, we are waiting for the medical findings about the cause of death,” he said.The case had been registered as one of “suspicious death” with the parents too suspecting murder, and the special teams were pursuing “certain information,” Thamarai Kannan said.A police officer said the body was in a highly decomposed condition as it had been under water for a long time. There were injury marks on the neck, back of the head and hip. Only the postmortem report would throw light on whether they were injuries caused by any weapons, fish bites or decomposition.Independent of the postmortem report, the police do not seem to have made much headway in the investigation. “Since it was a ‘man-missing- case, we were searching for him on the presumption that he was alive,” the officer said. A formal investigation on whether it was a case of suicide or murder began only after the missing man’s body was fished out from the lake, he added.
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