Daijiworld Media Network - Raichur (SP)
Raichur, May 12: The death of Madhu Pattar, an engineering student, which had evoked protests and demands to book the culprits at the earliest, was not a case of rape, but suicide. This was the finding of the postmortem report.
The report mentions that there were signs of blood having clotted around her neck and except this, no injury marks were found in her entire body. Her footwear was lying at the spot of her death undisturbed, and there were no signs of her having been sexually abused. The team which conducted analysis of the findings has come to the conclusion that it was a case of suicide, not rape-cum-murder.
The decomposed mortal remains of Madhu Pattar were found lying on a hillock. The police, based on a suicide note, had initially treated it as a case of suicide but the parents and many others demanded for registration of murder case. There was hue and cry from the general public seeking stringent punishment to the guilty, and a web page, 'Justice for Madhu' had been opened to garner support for the demand for action. The state government had thereafter handed over the probe to criminal investigation department (CID) team led by superintendent of police, Sharanappa. The postmortem report has been handed over to this team. Sources said that the report has dismissed the theory of rape and murder of the student.
The investigation team has now decided to book the girl's friend, Sudarshan, who was arrested and continues to be in custody, for abetment of suicide.
Madhu and Sudarshan had undergone PU education in the same college. Madhu was a science student while Sudarshan had opted for commerce. The closeness which developed between the two continued even after Madhu joined engineering college and Sudarshan acquired commerce degree, it is learnt. The boy, who misinterpreted this closeness, had asked the girl to love him which the girl had refused. Angered by this refusal, he had, on two or three occasions, behaved rudely with Madhu in the presence of her friends, it is gathered. Madhu, frustrated by his behaviour, tried to permanently keep away from him, and Sudarshan, angered by this, assaulted Madhu when she came to the college.
The girl who left her home on April 13 had gone missing, and her parents had filed missing complaint the same day. On that day, she was walking by the road after leaving home, and Sudarshan had stopped her and created a scene, after which all contacts with her were lost. CID officials believe that frustrated over Sudarshan's behaviour, Madhu might have decided to end her life. Madhu's partly decomposed body was recovered three days after her death. She had hung herself from a tree.