<Indian autopsies in Scarlette case 'absolutely illegal'By Alfred de TavaresStockholm, April 16: Swedish forensic experts have said the two autopsies carried out in India on the body of British teenager Scarlette Keeling, found dead on a beach in Goa, were "absolutely illegal". They also expressed concern that her organs, found missing during a third autopsy in Britain, may have been illegally traded....The standard procedure is, from the most initial incision, to speak into a recorder every detail resorted to and most minutely observed.
"Where electronic recording is not available, an assistant takes notes during the process, dictated by the obducent. This protocol is the vital part of the eventual investigation and its accuracy cannot be exaggerated," said Schedin, a 35-year veteran at Sweden's world-renowned Karolinska Hospital's Ratts Forensiska Avdelningen (judicial forensic department). "What the Indian pathologists claim is most confounding. With present forensic advances, easily available in India, that they should find it so difficult to determine the results with greater accuracy is simply incredible.>> This is the kind of input from NRGs about international best practices that should be valued and acted upon in Goa. What actually seems to happen is that either NRGs dont bother to create awareness about such practices or here in Goa it just goes in one ear and out the other of almost everybody. The end result: Goa is on a downward spiral when it should be fighting an uphill battle against increasingly difficult challenges.
