The Still CentreNov 13, 2019
nikitasaxena
The NCRB data on farmer suicides, its omissions on the reasons, and Maharashtra's overwhelming representation in those figures reminded me of a key character from The Caravan's investigation into Judge Loya's death: Dr Makarand Vyawahare. (1/n)
https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/loya-post-mortem-manipulated-vyawahare-maharashtra-cabinet-minister-mungantiwar
Post-mortem examination was manipulated under directions of doctor related to Maharashtra cabinet minister

A new investigation reveals the enormous role played behind the scenes of the case by Dr Makarand Vyawahare, who successfully hid crucial facts such as a wound on Loya’s head. Vyawahare is the brother-in-law of Sudhir Mungantiwar, the finance minister in the BJP-led government in Maharashtra.

Nov 13, 2019 at 8:18amWeb
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The story revealed how Vyawahare—then a senior member of the forensic dept at GMC Nagpur—forcefully omitted details of a head injury from Loya's post-mortem. But as we highlighted, he had allegedly been fudging autopsy reports much before that: specifically those of farmers.
Show threadnikitasaxenaNov 13, 2019
One of his former colleagues told me that when he was preparing the reports for three deaths related to poisoning, Vyawahare had forced him to change the smell that the doctor had inferred from the stomach tissue in 2 of the 3 corpses from "insecticidal" to "aromatic. "