Teacher dead & frothing in car, kin refuse autopsy

  • | Saturday | 12th January, 2019

The locals informed Indiranagar police which reached the spot and forced open the car to find the man dead. Ghazipur Circle officer Amit Kumar said, “The family was aware of the heart ailment and the risk and was convinced by doctors’ opinion. Indiranagar SHO AK Dubey took his phone and called his family. He had gone to coaching centre in the morning and must have been on his way home. There was no evidence suggesting foul play like injuries on body, signs of struggle or poisoning symptoms.

LUCKNOW: A 42-year old physics teacher was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his car parked in service lane near Khurramnagar crossing under Indiranagar police station on Friday morning.The deceased, Ashutosh Asthana (42), taught in a Kapoorthala-based coaching centre and was on his way back home to Indiranagar.Around 9 am, some locals saw him lying on the rear seat of car and knocked the windows but did not get response. The locals informed Indiranagar police which reached the spot and forced open the car to find the man dead. Indiranagar SHO AK Dubey took his phone and called his family. The phone was picked up by Asthana’s wife Manisha who rushed to the spot with neighbours.“She identified her husband and said that he was suffering from cardiac ailment. He had gone to coaching centre in the morning and must have been on his way home. She requested us to take him to Lari Cardiology, KGMU, where he had been undergoing treatment. We rushed him to hospital but doctors in emergency declared him dead on arrival,” Dubey told TOI.The doctors said that Ashutosh could have died due to heart attack, he added.Police took the body in custody to send it for postmortem but the family did not want autopsy and gave a written undertaking. Ghazipur Circle officer Amit Kumar said, “The family was aware of the heart ailment and the risk and was convinced by doctors’ opinion. There was no evidence suggesting foul play like injuries on body, signs of struggle or poisoning symptoms. We tried to convince them that postmortem was a necessary procedure, but respected their will ultimately.”Manisha said, “He was suffering from a cardiac ailment for last one year. There was swelling in his heart valves.”

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