The police inquest report reportedly revealed that there was a blood stain on the underwear of former Kannur Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Naveen Babu, who was found dead inside his official quarters at Pallikkunnu in Kannur.

This is mentioned in the inquest report prepared by the Kannur Town Police on October 15.

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However, there was no mention of blood stains or injuries in the postmortem report. The FIR also does not mention any blood stains.

With this, the concerns of the family, which saw foul play in Naveen Babu’s death, is getting stronger. The inquest report also mentions that no relatives were present at the location for the inquest; hence their statements could not be recorded.

According to the contents of the FIR, there are no other suspicions regarding the cause of death. The details of Naveen Babu’s postmortem report were released the other day. The postmortem report has confirmed that his death was due to hanging, with no suspicious
injuries or wounds on his body.

The report states that there was no injury to the skull and no damage to the ribs. The report also points out that the upper part of the left lung was in contact with the chest wall. There were no injuries to the muscles and major blood vessels. The report also states that there were no injuries to the cartilage and vertebrae and that the esophagus was normal.

The report states that the eyes were closed and the nose, mouth, and ears were not injured. The lips were blue, the teeth and gums were intact, the tongue was bitten, the fingernails were blue, the body showed no signs of decomposition, and the stomach and bladder were
empty. The report also points out that the spinal cord was not injured. The postmortem report also states that the body was not kept in a cold room.

Naveen Babu’s relatives have reportedly filed a complaint against the doctor who conducted the postmortem following the revelation in the police inquest report. One of his relatives, Anil P Nair, said the doctor who conducted the postmortem should have read the inquest
report carefully.

“It is, therefore, clear that no scientific investigation was conducted. There is still suspicion of a conspiracy in Naveen Babu’s death. There was bleeding from the body. That means there was a wound somewhere on the body. It is the responsibility of the police to say what it was and the responsibility of the doctor who conducted the postmortem,” he said.

That is why a thorough CBI investigation is being demanded, he added.

Naveen Babu’s family said they were informed of Naveen Babu’s death only after the inquest was completed. “We had requested authorities to conduct the post-mortem in Kozhikode medical college instead of medical college ,” Naveen Babu’s relative Anil P Nair told
a news channel.

His wife has moved the Kerala High Court seeking CBI probe into her husband’s death claiming that the state police investigation is not proceeding in the right direction. She alleged that the accused, former president of the Kannur District Panchayat, P P Divya,
possessed significant political influence, raising concerns that the investigation might be sabotaged. When the case seeking a CBI probe into the death of former Kannur ADM came up for hearing on Friday before Justice Kauser Edappagat, the Kerala government opposed the
plea. The case is posted for December 12.

The Kannur ADM was found dead at his official residence in Pallikkunnu, Kannur, on the morning of October 15. He allegedly took his life after facing public humiliation and corruption accusations made by PP Divya, then the Kannur District Panchayat President, at the farewell meeting on October 14. Divya had accused him of intentionally delaying the issuance of an NOC to Prasanthan to start a petrol pump at Chengalai in Kannur.