DU girl was murdered, doctors tell police

Postmortem report expected on Friday

The team of Lok Nayak doctors, constituted to conduct a postmortem on the Delhi University alumna who was found burnt to death on Tuesday, has told police that the girl was murdered.

Police sources said that 22-year-old Neha Jindal had strangulation marks, suggesting that she was first strangulated and then set on fire. The written postmortem report is expected by Friday after which they will register a murder case, police sources said.

The Delhi University graduate's body was found in the backyard of her house in the Sarai Rohilla's police quarters.

At first, the police suspected it to be a case of suicide. The girl's family and friends, however, claimed that Jindal was afraid of fire and could not have set herself ablaze. They alleged that it was a case of murder, but the police refused to register a murder case in the absence of an eyewitness and said they could only do so after the postmortem report arrives.

Jindal's body was sent to the Sabzi Mandi mortuary for postmortem.

A special team of four doctors from Lok Nayak Hospital was formed to conduct the postmortem. The upper torso was burnt and charred pieces of paper, that the police suspected could have been a suicide note, were found near the body, according to the police.

Jindal, whose mother Vimla Jindal is a sub-inspector at the Parliament Street police station, graduated from Laxmi Bai College this year.

Two of her aunts and her uncle are in the police.

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