Armstrong case: Madras High Court orders retired govt. physician to be included in staff conducting post-mortem on Nagendrans physique

The Madras High Court on Friday (October 10, 2025) rejected a plea made by N. Visalakshi, widow of P. Nagendran — the prime accused within the homicide of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief K. Armstrong — to incorporate a physician of her selection in a staff to be constituted for conducting the autopsy on her husband’s physique.

Justice N. Sathish Kumar, nevertheless, ordered {that a} retired Dean of Kilpauk Medical College Hospital be included within the staff of presidency forensic consultants to be constituted for conducting the autopsy on the physique of the accused, who died at Government Stanley Hospital in Chennai on Thursday (October 9).

The choose additionally ordered that your entire process be recorded on video and that the viscera should be preserved for evaluation by the forensic sciences division. The orders have been handed on an pressing petition moved by the spouse of the deceased, accusing the police of not admitting her ailing husband to a personal hospital.

Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) K.M.D. Muhilan advised the courtroom the accused was concerned in lots of prison circumstances and that he was serving life sentence at Puzhal Central Prison in one other homicide case on the time of his formal arrest in reference to the Armstrong homicide case.

As the convict was affected by a number of well being problems, he was handled as an in-patient on the Christian Medical College Hospital in Vellore between January 30, 2025, and April 22, 2025, and was thereafter receiving common medical care as an outpatient on the similar hospital.

A Division Bench of Justices M.S. Ramesh and V. Lakshminarayanan on August 13, 2025, directed the jail officers to maneuver the convict to a personal hospital at Chromepet in Chennai, as requested by his spouse, because the medical data revealed that he required a residing donor dwell transplantation.

Though the jail officers approached the non-public hosptial for admitting the convict, the hosptial authorities expressed sure difficulties in admitting him as a result of the medical doctors who had handled him beforehand weren’t hooked up with the hospital anymore. Therefore, he was handled on the Stanley Hospital, the APP stated.