Body of Nithyananda disciple exhumed, viscera taken to Bengaluru

TNN | Jan 8, 2015, 07.36 AM IST

TRICHY: The body of a 24-year-old woman who died under mysterious circumstances at the Nityananda ashram in Bidadi, Karnataka, was exhumed from the graveyard in Navalurkuttapattu in Trichy on Wednesday and the viscera was being taken to Bengaluru for subsequent process after the re-postmortem to ascertain the cause of her death. 

The body of A Sangeetha, 24 ,was exhumed from a cemetery in her village Navalurkuttapattu on the Trichy -Dindigul Road in the presence of a team of officials from the revenue department, the Trichy police and a three-member police team from Bengaluru. The process commenced in the afternoon after the files were cleared by the Trichy district administration on Tuesday. Her father, Arjunan turned emotional while identifying the spot where the body of his daughter was buried. 

The postmortem was done at a secluded place on the premises of the graveyard by a team of two doctors from KAP Viswanathan Government Medical College. A large number of villagers gathered in and around the graveyard to witness the second postmortem of the controversial death. 

The police team led by sub-inspector of police (SI), the Bidadi police station in Bengaluru who camped in Trichy from Tuesday got the viscera taken out from the body. The mortal remains of the body was then buried again. The police team left Trichy for Bengaluru by evening on Wednesday with the viscera. 

"The exhumation and re-postmortem were done perfectly. We are on the way to Bengaluru with the viscera to submit it to the forensic science lab there to ascertain the cause of death," SI B N Lohith told TOI. 

Sangeetha, a disciple of Nityananda died under mysterious circumstances on December 28, 2014. The ashram claimed she died of cardiac arrest. 

However, her mother grew suspicious over the nature of her death and complained to the Bengaluru police to conduct a re-postmortem.

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Sangeetha’s body exhumed, re-postmortem done

A re-postmortem was conducted here on Wednesday on the body of A. Sangeetha (24) of Tiruchi who died under mysterious circumstances at the Nityananda Dhyanapeetam in Bidadi near Bengaluru recently.

The body was exhumed from the cremation ground at Navalur Kuttapattu in the city’s outskirts in the presence of Sangeetha’s father, a police team from Karnataka, revenue officials and local police.

The exhumation and re-post mortem was done as demanded by parents of Sangeetha who suspected foul play in their daughter’s death, although the ashram authorities had claimed that the woman had died of cardiac arrest.

The parents of Sangeetha had petitioned the Superintendent of Police of Ramanagaram district in Karnataka in this regard a few days ago. A police team from Karnataka arrived at Tiruchi on Tuesday and made a formal request for exhuming the body. Upon getting approval from the district authorities, the body was exhumed on Wednesday afternoon from the cremation ground where a re-postmortem was done by two doctors of the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital.

The exercise went on for over an hour, police sources said, adding that the viscera samples were taken from the body and sent for laboratory tests. Sangeetha who had been working in the ashram for four years died a few days ago.

 

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