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The Madras High Court connected Friday (October 10, 2025) rejected a plea made by N. Visalakshi, widow of P. Nagendran — the premier accused successful the execution of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) person K. Armstrong — to see a doc of her prime successful a squad to beryllium constituted for conducting the post-mortem connected her husband’s body.
Justice N. Sathish Kumar, however, ordered that a retired Dean of Kilpauk Medical College Hospital beryllium included successful the squad of authorities forensic experts to beryllium constituted for conducting the post-mortem connected the assemblage of the accused, who died astatine Government Stanley Hospital successful Chennai connected Thursday (October 9).
The justice besides ordered that the full process beryllium recorded connected video and that the viscera indispensable beryllium preserved for investigation by the forensic sciences department. The orders were passed connected an urgent petition moved by the woman of the deceased, accusing the constabulary of not admitting her ailing hubby to a backstage hospital.
Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) K.M.D. Muhilan told the tribunal the accused was progressive successful galore transgression cases and that helium was serving beingness condemnation astatine Puzhal Central Prison successful different execution lawsuit astatine the clip of his ceremonial apprehension successful transportation with the Armstrong execution case.
As the convict was suffering from aggregate wellness complications, helium was treated arsenic an in-patient astatine the Christian Medical College Hospital successful Vellore betwixt January 30, 2025, and April 22, 2025, and was thereafter receiving regular aesculapian attraction arsenic an outpatient astatine the aforesaid hospital.
A Division Bench of Justices M.S. Ramesh and V. Lakshminarayanan connected August 13, 2025, directed the situation officials to determination the convict to a backstage infirmary astatine Chromepet successful Chennai, arsenic requested by his wife, arsenic the aesculapian records revealed that helium required a surviving donor unrecorded transplantation.
Though the situation officials approached the backstage hosptial for admitting the convict, the hosptial authorities expressed definite difficulties successful admitting him due to the fact that the doctors who had treated him antecedently were not attached with the infirmary anymore. Therefore, helium was treated astatine the Stanley Hospital, the APP said.
