Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Jul 31: The post-mortem report pertaining to deceased Shiroor Math Swamiji, Sri Lakshmivara Theertha was received by the police on Monday July 30. Strangely, the report does not specify cause of death.

After the Swamiji breathed his last at KMC Hospital Manipal on July 19, post-mortem was conducted in the same hospital on that day. The medical officers of the hospital handed over the post-mortem report to the district superintendent of police on Monday. However, instead of recording the cause of death in the report, the doctors of KMC said that they would come out with the cause of death after the scientific report is received from forensic science laboratory, Mangaluru.

Shiroor Swamiji

Therefore, the police said that they have to wait till the forensic science laboratory report is received to know the cause of death.

Samples from different parts of Swamiji's body were sent by the hospital directly to the regional office of forensic science laboratory at Mangaluru. After the hospital receives report from the laboratory, the doctors will match the two reports and arrive at a definite reason for the Swamiji's death, it is said. Normally the forensic science laboratory takes not less than a month to prepare and submit its report.

Sources said that both the base Shiroor Math at Shiroor and the premises in the town will continue to be under police control till the investigation is completed. The clothes, bed sheet, blanket, pillow etc used by the Swamiji at the time of his death which were preserved at the hospital, were collected by the police from the hospital in a sealed cover on Monday.