Imphal, February 21: Turning the version of the police on its head, Forensic expert Dr H Nabachandra today informed the Upendra Commission that K Bimol received bullet wounds from different directions-front, back and sides.

Testifying before the probe panel today, the doctor, who conducted the post mortem on the body of Bimol, said that the victim received as many as 37 bullet wounds and added that the bullets came from different directions.

The bullets were also fired not beyond three feet from the victim, he testified.

"I have never come across any dead body which had so many ante-mortem bullet injuries," said the doctor while deposing before the probe panel.

Effectively negating the police claim that Bimol was pillion riding when he was shot dead, the doctor said that as per the injuries suffered on the front side of the body, it is clear that the injuries could not have been sustained by a pillion rider.

On February 16, the doctor had stated that the victim died of multiple fire arms injuries of the heart, lung, spinal cord, liver, spleen, kidney and bone fractures.

Blunt force injuries were also detected on the body.

The doctor had maintained that the blunt force injuries could not have been sustained by falling down from a moving motor cycle.

K Bimol was killed under contradictory claims on December 29 last year, with the police claiming that he was killed in a shoot out while eye witness accounts said that he was first arrested from a passenger bus.

Meanwhile personnel of 28 Assam Rifles including its CO failed to turn up before the probe panel inquiring into the circumstances that led to the death of a retired school teacher LD Rengtuiwan of Bungte Chiru village.

The panel had on February 10 issued summons on the CO of 28 Assam Rifles asking him to appear before the panel on February 19.One Captain, one Havildar and a rifleman of the same unit were also asked to turn up on February 18 to record their statement.

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