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Tabrez Ansari lynching case_ Jharkhand police bring back murder charge on accused

was kept “reserved” in the viscera report.

In a statement, the Jharkhand Police said that in the first chargesheet, “opinion on the cause of death” was kept “reserved” in the viscera report. And on invoking the Delhi News Highlights: Former Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda, son sentenced to 4 years in jail in Chhattisgarh coal block murder charge under Section 302 of the IPC, police said they had “additional evidence” like the opinion sought from a second medical board of directors, which opined that Ansari’s death was due to the combined effect of “injury and cardiac arrest” and that the video was not tampered with.

A welder, Ansari (22) was accused of theft by a mob in Dhatkidih village of SarikelaKharsawan on June 18. He was tied to a pole and forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram, Jai Hanuman”. Police later arrested Ansari and booked him on theft charges while doctors at the Sadar Hospital declared him “fit for travel”. Four days later, Ansari died while being rushed to hospital after he collapsed inside jail.

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The doctors opined: “The fracture of bone is grievous injury caused by hard and blunt object. The combined effect of fracture of bones, pale organs and heart chambers full of blood resulted in ‘Apply for Kidney Donation’: Man

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