Didn’t get any forensic report: Crime Branch

Tribune News Service 

Jammu, June 25 

A day after a report of forensic experts appeared in the media that the eight-year-old Kathua rape victim could have slipped into coma due to overdose of sedatives, the Crime Branch of the J&K Police on Monday claimed that there was no such report with it. 

“We don’t have any such report,” said Ramesh Kumar Jalla, Senior Superintendent of Police, Crime Branch, Jammu. 

Yesterday, a news agency while quoting Crime Branch, on the basis of report of forensic medical experts, claimed that an overdose of sedatives, forcibly administered to the victim during her captivity in Kathua in January this year, could have pushed her into coma before she was killed. 

It had said the crime branch sent a sample of her viscera to a forensic laboratory earlier this month to examine the effect of “mannar” candies (believed to be local cannabis) and epitril 0.5 mg tablets, administered to the girl by her alleged captors.