Ex Bahrain resident’s son's death still a mystery, two years on

Mangaluru/Manama : It has been two years since the headless body of Indian Rohit Radhakrishnan (22), a final year student of AJ Institute of Medical Sciences, Mangaluru, was found near Tannir Bavi beach, in the city on the fateful morning of March 23 2014. His parents Dr Sreedevi and lawyer Radhakrishnan are still to get over the tragedy of losing their only child.

Dr Sreedevi, a practicing pediatrician, who was working at Bahrain at that time, returned home at Pathanamthitta, Kerala, unable to bear the loss of his son. The couple are trying to bury their sorrows in their careers.

The couple are not able to get a closure of the case, as they believe the police are trying to cover up the case, registering it as an accident, despite their son’s mutilated body was found on the roadside.

With much hue and cry of family members, relatives, well-wishers and support from the media, authorities in India were forced to reopen the case and investigate the possibility of homicide.

Later, the case was handed over to the India’s Central Investigation Department (CID) to pacify the agitated parents and public.

However the results of the enquiry is still a mystery. According to Rohit’s parents the so-called investigation was a mere mockery intended to divert attention.

The parents allege that the investigation team tried hard to prove that it was an accident; yet are unable to answer questions been raised challenging the observation and conclusions made by the police.

They also accuse the investigators of fabricating evidence to prove that Rohit’s death was indeed an accident.

The parents are seeking convincing answers for the following questions in connection with the case:
1.    Why the accident theory could not be established?
2.    Why aren’t investigators looking at the murder angle despite numerous evidences?
3.   Why was Rohit’s body brought to the institute where he was studying?
4.    Why wasn’t the autopsy conducted by a police surgeon?
5.    Why was the embalming done without the consent of immediate relatives?
6.    Why is the video tape (mandatory) of the autopsy missing?
7.    Why weren’t the conflicting statements of his friends, who were with him till the last moment, not investigated?
8.    Why did the police try to hush-up the case declaring it a ‘freak accident’?
9.    Why the AJ Institute of Medical Science did not condole the death of their student?
10.    Why was there was an inordinate delay in announcing a CID enquiry?
11.    What is the outcome of that enquiry even after two years?
12.    Why wasn’t the local people, who had identified the body and believe it to be a murder, questioned?