Asphyxia

The death of former Telecom Minister A Raja's key aide Sadiq Batcha was due to asphyxia and his body showed compression of the neck with hanging mark, a doctor who conducted the post-mortem said today.We cannot say now whether it was suicide or murder.. the report will be ready in two weeks," Dr V Dekal of the Government Royapettah Hospital, where the autopsy was conducted, said.The death was