Vyapam scam: CBI will soon complete probe into Damor death

The CBI, probing the multi-crore Vyapam scam, will soon complete its probe into the mysterious death of second-year medical student Namrata Damor. Damor was found dead on the railway tracks in Ujjain in January, 2012.

Sources said, “The agency has already sought expert opinion from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences to determine if there was any foul play in Damor’s death.

The CBI is now on the verge of the completion of its probe related to Damor’s death”. The CBI has registered more than 150 FIRs in the Vyapam scam.

“The state police had initially filed a case of murder, but while filing a closure report in 2014, termed it a suicide. They (cops) decided to file closure report in the case on the basis of a forensic report, filed two months after the autopsy. The forensic report had concluded that Namrata’s injuries were more consistent with a fall on the train track rather than smothering or asphyxiation”, sources said.

The CBI also sought an expert opinion from the AIIMS to determine if there was any foul play in Aaj Tak journalist Akshay Singh’s sudden death in the state in July, 2015. The agency has already collected his medical reports from his family to ascertain whether he had any medical history which might have led to his death.

The agency sleuths are also examining documents pertaining to the inquest proceedings carried out by the state police in the case, sources said.

Singh, who was probing the story of Namrata Damor, had collapsed at her house after interviewing her parents. He was among over 35 people linked directly or indirectly with the scam who were found dead in mysterious circumstances over a period of time.

Damor’s father Mehtab Singh Damor had said Akshay and two others visited their house in Jhabua district in MP on July 4 (2015) afternoon. After the interview was over, someone was sent to get some papers photocopied. As Akshay was waiting outside Damor’s house, suddenly he started frothing at the mouth. He was rushed to the civil hospital and later to a private hospital, but doctors failed to revive him. From there he was taken to another hospital in nearby Dahod in Gujarat, where he was declared brought dead.