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A: Yes. No incision was done. Only a soft rubber catheter was passed from
injury No. 4 to 5, the point of entry of the bullet and its exit, which were
serious injuries that might have caused the death.
Q: Why did you do that?
A: To see the track of the bullet.
Q: How could you find the track of bullets. In case of gunshot wounds, the
route is determined by dissection, because a bullet takes a torturous and
erratic course, according to Modi's book on medicolegal postmortems. What
you have found is the passage, no damage inside could be seen.
A: Yes.
Q: What was the need of a postmortem when the internal injuries and
damage to vital veins and arteries are not known?
A: Without incision the damage to minor vessels could not be determined.
Q: If the man was shifted to a well-equipped hospital within minutes, he
could have been saved?
A: I think so.
Q: Heavy loss of blood contributed to the death?
A: Yes.
Q: When six bodies were moved to JPMC at 3:30 am, there was no electricity
in the mortuary. Is no generator provided?
A: There was no power supply and no generator either. But we have
instructions to perform the postmortems in the light of lanterns.
Chairman: Going back another 200 years.
Q: Were you legally competent to form the team to conduct the postmortems.
Under what provisions of law, you went to Mideast unless you were
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