Nalagarh cops seek nod to exhume man’s body

Tribune News Service

Solan, July 30

The Nalagarh police have submitted an application to the District Magistrate (DM), Badaun, Uttar Pradesh, to dig out the body of a man, identified as Abdul Kalam, from his grave after the cops probing his death found evidence indicating that he was shot in the head.

The police have sought permission to conduct another postmortem to extricate the bullet, in the application submitted yesterday. The postmortem conducted here stated head injury as the cause of death.

“Three men, identified as Sahid (21), Fajan (20) and Himanshu (20), residents of Badaun area, who were residing in Nalagarh, have been arrested by the police. A dispute pertaining to money, old enmity and a girl emerged as the cause of murder,” said Superintendent of Police (SP), Baddi, Rohit Malpani.

The body of the 22-year old man, who was working as a carpenter, was found at an isolated place in Nalagarh area, with liquor bottles and empty glasses lying around, on July 23. The postmortem conducted at the Nalagarh hospital revealed head injury as the cause of death, and a case under Section 302 of the IPC was registered.

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