Sushant case: Forensic team to submit final medical opinion to CBI next week

A five-member medical board of forensic experts was formed by AIIMS

sushant-singh-rajput-pti (File) Sushant Singh Rajput | PTI

The Forensic Board of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will share its final medical opinion with the CBI next week in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case.

"We are in process of perusal of case after due medical board meeting and subsequent meeting with CBI, a medical board opinion will be given to CBI next week. I hope it will be total conclusive without any confusion or doubts. Reports can't be shared since subjudice," (Prof) Dr Sudhir Gupta, head of the Forensic Department at AIIMS told ANI on Thursday.

Sushant was found dead in his Mumbai apartment on June 14. A five-member medical board of forensic experts was formed by AIIMS in August to look into the autopsy files related to Sushant’s death, after the CBI took over the probe.

"We will look into the possibility of murder. However, all probable angles will be thoroughly examined," Sudhir Gupta had said earlier. In a letter to the premier medical institute, the central probe agency had said it will provide the team of forensic experts with the necessary medical papers, post-mortem reports, videographs and viscera reports at the earliest.

"It is in connection with the investigation of Sushant Singh Rajput's death case that a medical board of doctors of the AIIMS, New Delhi is required to be constituted for providing an expert medical opinion.

"The necessary medical papers, post-mortem reports, viscera reports will be provided at the earliest. It is, therefore, requested that a medical board of doctors at the AIIMS, New Delhi may please be constituted and deputed for visiting the place of occurrence at Mumbai at the earliest," the CBI said in its letter. 

Recently, by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested actress Rhea Chakraborty in the drug case linked to Sushant’s death probe.

-with PTI inputs