Dr. Sachan’s family – his doctor brother Dr. R.K.Sachan, wife Dr. Malti Sachan and his son – moved the Supreme Court claiming that the Uttar Pradesh government, at the highest level, was engaged in a cover up operation and was bent upon treating Sachan’s death as a suicide.
The petition said that the Advocate General of the State was wrongly instructed to tell the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court that the post-mortem of Dr. Sachan was conducted in the presence of deceased doctor brother and doctor wife.
The petition said both had to file an affidavit negating the claim by the Advocate General there by making the High Court to observe that it was faced with a “piquant situation”.
An apex court bench of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice Cyriac Joseph asked Counsel Kamini Jaiswal, appearing for Sachan’s family, to route the petition through the court registry.
Dr. Y.S. Sachan, the prime accused in chief medical officer B.P. Singh’s murder, was found dead in mysterious circumstances in the washroom of Lucknow district jail hospital on June 22 where he was under treatment.
Dr. Sachan was found dead just a day before he was to be taken to court for seeking his remand along with other three accused – Ram Krishna Verma, Anand Tewari and Vinod Sharma