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The anterior and lateral walls of the trachea 0.5 cm below the cricoid cartilage was found cut and the tracheal lumen was exposed, at the floor of the cut wounds, blackish brown extravagated blood was found adherent onto the surrounding soft tissues of the trachea on the floor of the wound. Blackish brown blood was found adherent onto the mucosal surface of trachea, bronchi and the primary bronchioles.
22. The Doctors further found that fully grown maggots were emerging out of the denuded areas on the back. Plenty of fully grown maggots were emerging out of the anal orifice and fully grown maggots were emerging out of the nostrils. The Doctors opined as follows:-
65. The petitioner would make reliance on the presence of the maggots all over the body. From the age of the maggots, the experts have opined that the body would have come to the surface on 09.06.2011. The maggots collected from the body of the deceased were sent for examination to the Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Madras Veterinary College and one Dr.S.Abdul Basith, Professor and Head of Deaprtment of Veterinary Parasitology, Madras Veterinary College who has got 31 years of experience in the field examined the same. According to him, the oldest maggot found was 3rd stage larva and it would have taken two to three days for it to reach the 3rd stage from the time of laying of the eggs. He would further opine as follows:-
It means those maggots appeared to be 2-3 days old and it can be safely presumed that the body would have started floating on the surface of water either on 10.06.2011 or latest by 11.06.2011 (morning).
66. Going by his opinion, one can contend that the body would have been floating on 10.06.2011 and 11.06.2011, had the body been immersed in water prior to 10.06.2011. If really the body had been in water on 10.06.2011 and 11.06.2011 it would have been certainly floating and the same would not have been omitted to be noticed by the fire service men who were fully engaged in the job on 11.06.2011 and 12.06.2011. It is from this, the petitioner contends that the deceased would have been killed elsewhere and the body would have been thrown only after the fire service personnel had completed their search operations and returned. They completed the search operation on 12.06.2011 evening itself. The contention of the petitioner is that the body would have been thrown into water either on the night of 12.06.2011 or on the next day in the decomposed condition. It is the opinion of the experts that the eggs and the maggot would not be alive in water. Therefore, assuming that the body was decomposed already on land and there were eggs and larvae when the body was thrown into the water they would have died. This possibility needs to be thoroughly investigated and ruled out by the CBI.