Skull Broken, Brain Matter Missing, Ribs Out: Autopsy Reveals Extent Of Delhi Car Horror

The Delhi woman who was dragged for 13 kilometres under a car that hit her scooter had at least 40 external injuries, the severity such that her ribs were exposed from her back as skin peeled away, her autopsy has revealed.

The base of her skull was fractured and some “brain matter was missing”, the report said, according to sources. She had injuries on the head, spine and lower limbs.

The cause of her death is listed as “shock and haemorrhage”, and the report says the injuries may have collectively caused the death. There is “no injury suggestive of sexual assault”, though her mother had feared she had been raped as her body was unclothed when found.

Her clothes were ripped off by the dragging as the men drove on from Sultanpuri, where they had collided with her scooter, to Jonti village near Kanjhapura, where one of the men finally spotted her hand sticking out from under the car.

Her leg was stuck in the front axle and, according to her friend who was with her at the time of the collision, “the driver knew she was stuck in the undercarriage”.

The five men in the car have reportedly said they panicked as they were drunk and could not hear anything as they were playing loud music.

All of her injuries were a result of “blunt force impact”, said the autopsy report.