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NOTE: This report may be in error in that the body examined may not be that of Sant Bhindranwale but of someone else. There is a comment that the person was "well-built", Sant Ji was known to be rather thin and lean, also the height of Sant Ji is incorrect. Therefore this report is incorrect, and is only displayed here for scrutiny.

Name: Jarnail Singh
Father's Or Husband's Name: Sh. Joginder Singh
Caste: Sikh
Residence: V. Rode, P.O. Bagga Purana, Distt. Faridkot
Sex: Male about 38 years
District: Amritsar
Date: 7/6/84

Body Brought By: ASI Saudagar Singh
Body Identified By: S.I. Darshan Singh C.I.D

Where Brought: Village, Thana, District: P.S. A Division from dead house, Amritsar

Death	Examination Of Body	Despatch Of matter To Chemical Examiner	Appearance Of Symptom Of Poison Or Disease
7/6/84, 7pm	8pm	-	-

Police Information
Symptoms Observed Before Death	-
Information Furnished By Police	Alleged to have died as a result of multiple injuries

N.B. The Medical Officer will observe the state of all the organs and when he finds no disease or injury, he should write in the appropriate place the word "Healthy".

I - EXTERNAL APPEARANCE

Length of body	6' - 0"
Mark of ligature on neck and dissections, etc.	-
Condition of subject - stout, emaciated, .decomposed etc., clothing	Body of a middle-aged person, well-built, wearing a Kacha, a chola and a phatui. All clothes blood-stained. A white metal kara present one in each forearm. Rigor mortis present in lower extremities only. Eyes closed. Left pupil dilated. Left eyeball sunken. Mouth semiopen. Post mortem staining present on back of body.
Wounds, bruises, position, size, nature	Injuries A lacerated wound 3 cm x 1 cm with inverted and ecchymised margins on the right side of forehead, 2 cms above middle of right eyebrow. A lacerated wound with everted margins, 7 cm x 5 cm on right side of face between nose, right eye and mouth; right and left of upper lip is injured. On dissection, the bullet after entering under injury No. 1 fractured the frontal bones of right orbit, injured right side skull, fractured right maxilla and right side of mandible. A few teeth are lying in mouth cavity. The bullet came out through the injury No. 2. Injuries 1 and 2 communicate with each other. A lacerated wound 3 cm x 1 cm with inverted and ecchymised margins on right side of head 4 cm from right eye and 1.1 cm from right eyebrow. A lacerated wound 10 cm x 7 cm with everted margins on right side and back of head including the upper half of right ear. On dissection, the bullet after entering through injury No. 3 fractured the right parietal bone, injured brain membranes and brain matter, fractured right temporal and occipetal bones and made the wound of exit through injury No. 4. Grossly lacerated brain matter mixed with blood clots and pieces of bone present in cranial cavity. Injuries 3 and 4 communicate with each other. A lacerated wound 1.5cm x 1 cm with inverted and ecchymised margins on front of right upper arm in upper 1/3rd. A lacerated wound 2 cm x 1.5 cm with everted margins on back of right upper arm in upper 1/3rd at horizontal level with injury No. 5. On dissection, the bullet after entering through injury No. 5 injured muscles of upper arm to come out of injury No. 6. Blood clots present amongst injured muscles. Injuries 5 and 6 communicate with each other. A lacerated wound 0.75 cm x 0.75 cm with inverted and ecchymised margins on left side of front of chest, 2 cm above left nipple at 12 o'clock position. A lacerated wound 3 cm x 1.5 cm with everted margins on lower 1/3rd of right side of back of chest in paravertebral region. On dissection, the bullet after entering through injury No. 7 fractured the 3rd rib on left side, injured left pleura and upper lobe of left lung through and through, injured the pericardium and heart through and through, injured right paravertebral muscles to make the wound of exit through injury No. 8 Injuries 7 and 8 communicate with each other. Free fluid blood and blood clots about 1000 cc present in chest cavity. 9. A lacerated wound …cm x 3 cm with ragged margins on medial aspect of right leg. (one word unreadable) placed on lower 1/3rd of leg. Underneath muscle grossly lacerated and with both bones of leg fractured into multiple pieces. Blood clots present among injured tissues. A lacerated wound 6 cms x 3 cms with ragged margins on inner aspect of right foot in proximal half. Underneath soft tissues injured and bone fractured. A lacerated wound 1 cm x 0.75 cm with inverted and ecchymised margins on inner aspect of left ankle joint. A lacerated wound 1.5 cm x 1 cm on outer aspect of right foot in its proximal half. On dissection, the bullet after entering through injury No. 11 injured soft tissues and left ankle joint, fractured lower end of left tibia and left talus bone and made wound of exit through injury No. 12. Blood clots present amongst injured soft tissues. Injuries 11 and 12 communicate with each other. A lacerated wound 0.75 cm x 0.5 cm with inverted and ecchymised margins on left side of forehead 4 cm above right eyebrow. A lacerated wound 2.5 cm x 1 cm with everted margins on right side of head, 4 cms right eyebrow and 9 cms above right ear. On dissection the bullet after entering through injury No. 13, fractured right side of frontal bone, injured brain membranes and brain matter grossly and made wound of exit through injury No. 14 after fracturing right parietal bone. Injuries 13 and 14 communicate with each other. All injuries are anti-mortem. Injuries 9 and 10 are blast injuries as a result of explosive material which are causing fractures.

II - CRANIUM AND SPINAL CHORD

N.B. The spinal canal need not be examined unless indication of disease or injury exists.

Scalp, Skull	Vertebrae	Membranes,Brain,Spinal Chord
Described	NAD	Described

III - THORAX

1. Walls, Ribs And Cartilages	Described
2. Picurae	Left: Described NAD
3. Larynx And Tracheae	NAD
4 . Right Lung	NAD
5. Left Lung	Described
6. Pericardium - Heart Large vessels	Described Described

IV - ABDOMEN

1. Walls	NAD
2. Peritonium	NAD; Described
3. Mouth, Barynx And Esophagus	NAD
4. Stomach And Its Contents	Empty; NAD Chyal Present
5. Small Intestines And Their Contents	NAD
6. Large Intestines And Their Contents	Faecal Matter Present; NAD
7. Liver	Pale; NAD
8. Spleen	Pale, NAD
9. Kidneys	NAD
10. Bladder	Empty; NAD
11. Organs Of Generation; External And Internal	NAD

V - MUSCLES, BONES, JOINTS

Injury	Disease Or Deformity	Fracture	Dislocation
Described	-	Described	-

VI - REMARKS BY MEDICAL OFFICER

In my opinion death is due to shock and haemorrhage as a result of massive head injury and injuries to heart and left lung accompanied with multiple fractures which is sufficient to cause death in ordinary course of nature.

Handed over to ASI Saudagar Singh:

Sutured body with clothes etc.
C.C of PMR
Police papers - four

Sd. Devinder Sharma
c/o Civil Surgeon
Amritsar

Probable time that elapsed
(a) between injury and death	Instantaneous
(b) between death and post-mortem	About 36 hours