India, March 22 -- While a judicial magistrate's probe into the December 2024 death of law student Somnath Suryavanshi in Parbhani in December while in police custody has concluded that it was due to physical abuse, a police officer from the district claimed on Friday that a histopathology test indicated there were three blockages in the 35-year-old's heart, which might have caused his death.

A judicial magistrate from Parbhani and Maharashtra's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had both begun probing Suryavanshi's alleged custodial death based on his family's allegations and the findings of the interim post-mortem report, which suggested he had died due to "shock following multiple injuries". However, the final post-mortem report ...