Shamnad Basheer may have died of suffocation: Police
Bengaluru, Aug 9: A day after legal scholar Shamnad Basheer was found dead in his car in Karnataka, police on Friday said he may have died due to suffocation, discounting the possibility of any foul play.
Basheer, an alumnus of the National Law School of India University here and the Oxford University, was found dead by police in his car in an open area, a short distance from the road, on the outskirts of the district headquarters town of Chikkamagaluru on Thursday.
"He had parked and locked his car from inside and the cause of death is either suffocation or carbon monoxide poisoning because he must have switched on his heater, because after some time it led to short-circuit," Chikkamagaluru Superintendent of Police Harish Pandey told PTI.
The police are waiting for the autopsy report to determine the cause of the death of the 43-year-old, the founder of Increased Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education, an NGO serving to make legal education accessible to underprivileged children.
He was also a specialist in Intellectual Property law.
Basheer, a recipient of the Infosys Science Foundation prize and also known for his contributions in reforms in and spreading of legal education, was reportedly missing for the past three to four days.
Police had launched a vigorous search on Thursday after his family members lodged a missing complaint.
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UP: Six arrested for forging sale deed of Rs 78 lakh land in Bulandshahr
Bulandshahr (UP) (PTI): Six people, including a woman, were arrested on Thursday for allegedly forging documents and executing a fake sale deed to illegally sell plot worth Rs 78 lakh here, police said.
Urvashi Gupta, a resident of Ghaziabad, lodged a complaint at Kakod police station on December 9, alleging that her land in village Belana, under Kakod police limits, had been fraudulently sold, Additional Superintendent of Police (City) Shankar Prasad said.
According to the complaint, unidentified persons impersonated her and prepared a forged sale deed to sell the property to one Pankaj Jain of Delhi.
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During the investigation, police identified eight suspects, of whom six -- Satyendra, Kuldeep and Karmveer of Bulandshahr, Rajkumar of Gautam Buddha Nagar district, and Santosh and Sangeeta Chaudhary of Mathura district -- were arrested.
Prasad said police seized a laptop, a printer, and forged Aadhaar and PAN cards from the accused.
The bank account of the woman involved, holding Rs 17.5 lakh, has been frozen, he added.
