A senior scientist of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) involved in the CBI's probe into Sushant Singh Rajput's death has revealed to India Today that their team has found no compelling evidence so far to suggest that the actor was murdered.
"There's no strangling. He did hang. The ligature marks show that he died by hanging," Amitosh Kumar, a senior scientific officer with the CFSL, told India Today's Special Investigation Team.
Kumar was also part of the CBI crew that recreated the scene at Rajput's Bandra home last month.
"It was me who went there (Rajput's home), not once but twice," he told India Today's investigative reporter.
According to the forensic scientist, the exhibits bore the telltale signs of hanging -- a V-shaped mark seen on the autopsy photos of the actor's neck that the noose left behind on the body suspended from a point above
In the event of strangling, the mark, according to experts, would rather take a horizontal course round the neck.
"There are no signs (evidence) of murder as of now. You can't force it that way. It doesn't look like a murder," he said.
NO FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED
Asked if he suspected a foul play in Rajput's death, Kumar insisted there was no solid evidence to suggest there was any.
"No foul play?" the reporter probed.
"Nothing of that sort has emerged so far. After all, you have to prove in the court that it is a murder. It's (a section of) the media, which is singing this murder-murder thing. How the case started and see where it has gone now," he remarked.
Some say that the space wasn't sufficient for hanging," the reporter asked.
"He could have hanged easily (in that space)," Kumar replied.
Under the administrative control of the CBI, the CFSL undertakes scientific analysis of crime exhibits referred to by the central investigating agency, the Delhi police, the judiciary and the vigilance wings of government departments and ministries
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