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The death of Sonam Kshatriya was ruled as suicide when her ex-boyfriend found her in her closet in 2019
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The funeral director sent her body back to the medical investigator for an autopsy because of “disturbing” bruises found everywhere in her body, is court documents
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Her family asks the medical investigator to change the way of death, so that the police can investigate again
The unthinkable happened on September 16, 2019, when the former friend of Sonam Kshatriya said he found the athletic, young professional dead in the walk-in closet of her apartment in New York City.
The lifeless body of Sonam, he told the police, hung on the belt of her bathrobe of Terry Cloth, which was tied to an overhead bar in the closet of her luxury apartment in Manhattan.
Her body was brought to the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (Ocme), where Dr. Julian Samuel ruled the death of the 27-year-old as suicide.
Knowing how much the graduate of Columbia University who worked in the music publishing industry had to look out, her family immediately asked the pronunciation of the medical researcher and insisted that she would not in any way take her own life.
Their worries only grew when the funeral director who prepared her body for cremation, the family told that he found extensive bruises on her body that were 'important and disturbing', according to a petition submitted by her family in the Supreme Court of the state of New York in February 2023 and obtained by people.
For fear that false game, the funeral director sent the body of Sonam back to ME's office for an autopsy.
Samuel carried out an autopsy on September 18, 2019 – but kept the way of death as suicide.
Determined to learn the truth about Sonam's death, her family spent years in court to change the ruling and to encourage the police to properly investigate the evidence that they think she has been killed.
In May 2024, a judge of the State of New York Supreme Court refused to change her family in 2023 to change the way of death – even with several experts fighting in the archiving requests that Sonam did not died by suicide and was injured in a fight just before she died. In June 2024, the family submitted a notification of an appeal and is currently awaiting a decision of the State of New York.
“This is an important case,” says the lawyer of the family, Joseph Podraza, of Lamb Mcerlane, PC, in Philadelphia.
“Every citizen in the state of New York should be concerned about this case, because medical researchers exercise so much power and discretion in these cases in order not to be checked.”
In the case of Sonam, Podraza claims: “There is considerable evidence that would indicate her death that was a murder and found staged as suicide to hide the fact of the murder.”
Questions about the last hours of Sonam
Sonam and her ex-boyfriend, who is not mentioned in the judicial documents and was not accused of any crime in connection with her death, had broken down months before her death, said researchers, according to the petition.
He still had limited access to her apartment to walk and feed the dog she shared when she was working, says the petition.
Two weeks before her death, his access was limited by the construction manager “at Sonam's explicit request”, the petition claims.
On Friday, September 13, her ex-boyfriend brought an “unexpected visit” to the building that “shocked” Sonam, the petition claims.
On Saturday, September 14, Sonam received a text from the ex-boyfriend: “A competitive Jiu Jitsu hunter, who suggests that he and Sonam look at a pay-per-view UFC fight in her apartment in her apartment that evening,” says it.
The ex-boyfriend claimed that he left the apartment at 7 o'clock on Sunday 15 September, the petition claims. He said he returned to the apartment on Monday 16 September to walk out of their dog when he said he found her body.
Records of mobile phones show that she did not use or open her phone after 12:16 pm on Sunday 15 September 2019 according to the petition.
She was found dead in the same clothes she was wearing on Saturday, says the petition.
Suspicious blood stains
Sonam had dried blood around her nose, but nobody on her hands when she was found. But the belt she allegedly hung to hang herself was smeared with blood, which, according to Podraza, has nothing on it.
According to a neuropathologist, they consulted: “That indicates from the mechanics that a third party literally raised her her, and thus got her blood on their hands and smeared it on those parts of the belt,” says Podraza.
Until the blood smear on the ligature is better explained, Podraza believes: “You cannot exclude the presence of a third party.”
“Minimum,” he adds, “further research is required.”
A lawyer at the New York City Law Department, who represents the Ocme and Daniel, said in a statement to people that “the rights department does not comment while this lawsuit is active.”
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