Gouri Lankesh murder: Charge sheet likely to be submitted
Bengaluru, May 28: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) officials are likely to submit their charge sheet to the court in related to journalist Gauri Lankesh murder shortly.
Sources said that as investigation, interrogation and statements from suspected accused Naveen Kumar, witnesses and FSL experts was completed, shortly the charge sheet would be submitted to the court besides searching for other accused in the case.
As there is a chance of moving a bail application in the court citing the delay in submitting the charge sheet even after three months of arresting the accused, the SIT officials have planned to submit the charge sheet. If the advocate of the accused moved the bail application on the above ground, then court might consider the application and sanction the bail. In view of this, SIT officials have decided to submit the 300 page charge sheet in the first phase to avoid the bail to the accused. After this, the SIT officials have planned to take the accused into their custody and interrogate him further.
As per the law, the police should submit the charge sheet before 90 days of filing an FIR. If the investigation is not completed, then they have to get extension from the court. So, the SIT would soon submit the charge sheet in the case, it is said.
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Bhopal gas tragedy: Effects of leak seen in next generation of survivors, says ex-forensic doctor
Bhopal (PTI): The effects of poisonous gases that leaked from the Union Carbide factory in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal 40 years ago were seen in the next generations of those who survived the tragedy, a former government forensic doctor has said.
At least 3,787 people were killed, and more than five lakh were affected after a toxic gas leaked from the pesticide factory in the city on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984.
Speaking at an event held by organisations of gas tragedy survivors on Saturday, Dr D K Satpathy, former head of the forensics department of Bhopal's Gandhi Medical College, said he performed 875 post-mortems on the first day of the disaster and witnessed 18,000 autopsies the next five years.
Sathpathy claimed Union Carbide had denied questions about the effects of poisonous gases on unborn children of women survivors and said effects would not cross the placental barrier in the womb in any condition.
He said blood samples of pregnant women who died in the tragedy were examined, and it was found that 50 per cent of poisonous substances found in the mother were also found in the child in her womb.
Children born to surviving mothers had the poisonous substances in their system, and this affected the health of the next generation, Sathpathy claimed and questioned why research on this was stopped.
Such effects will continue for generations, he said.
Satpathy said it was said that MIC gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant, and when it came in contact with water, thousands of gases were formed, and some of these caused cancer, blood pressure and liver damage.
Rachna Dhingra of Bhopal Group for Information and Action said Satpathy, who carried out most autopsies, and other first responders in the 1984 disaster, including the senior doctors in the emergency ward and persons involved in mass burials, narrated their experiences during the event.
Rashida Bee, president of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh, a poster exhibition covering every aspect of the disaster will be held till December 4 to mark the 40th anniversary of the tragedy.
An anniversary rally will be organised, with focus on global corporate crimes such as industrial pollution and climate change, she said.
