Patna, July 13: Police today received the post-mortem report of Vidya Shankar, the 22-year-old management student who allegedly stabbed himself to death at Gandhi Maidan on June 11 after the girl he loved asked him not to trouble her. According to the report, the cause of his death is haemorrhage, which resulted from injuries inflicted by a sharp weapon.

The report had no mention of any poison being consumed by the victim. According to sources, the boy had consumed sulphus, a slow killer.

The police said the weapon, a kitchen knife, would be sent to the state forensic science laboratory in Patna for a fingerprint check.

“The viscera of the boy have been preserved. There were three wounds in his body, two on the left side of the stomach and a cut on the left wrist. A right-handed person inflicting injury on himself would usually strike on the left side. The cut on the wrist is oblique shaped. This suggests that the deceased might have done it himself,” Patna City superintendent of police Shivdeep Lande said.

The police had lodged an FIR against the three women in front of whom Vidya had stabbed himself after the elder brother of the deceased, Ravi Shankar, complained that they stabbed him to death after poisoning him. According to the FIR, Ravi claimed that his brother told him during the course of his treatment that the three women had poisoned and stabbed him.

The accused are at present lodged in jail. Police said they could be interrogated soon.

The police have also recovered Vidya’s laptop and cellphone. They are trying to crack the security code of his mobile handset.

“Five mobiles have been seized. One belongs to the deceased, the others to the three girls. One of the cellphones belonging to the girls has a security code. Another has names stored under codes like AK 47. A third has names stored in codes like Dalal 1 and Dalal 2. We are checking them out at present,” said Lande.

The police confirmed that Vidya and the girl knew each other very well and exchanged text messages.

A police officer said: “Text messages from Vidya have been found in the girl’s cellphone. Most of them are romantic in nature. We are trying to crack the code of the boy’s mobile to confirm if the girl replied to his texts, though we are sure she did. Her cellphone also has a number of messages from another boy named Raju.”

The police said they were also trying to retrieve the deleted messages from the girl’s cellphone with the help of the telecom company concerned.

Vidya was a resident of Railway Colony in Khagaul on the city’s outskirts. He was pursuing a business administration degree from an institute in Bangalore. The girl is a final-year student at Magadh Mahila College and stayed in the same colony as Vidya.

The girl had agreed to meet Vidya a final time at Gandhi Maidan. Vidya, according to the girl’s statement, had promised not to trouble her anymore after the meeting. Two women had accompanied the girl. When the girl rejected his offers of marriage, Vidya stabbed himself. Passers-by took an injured Vidya to Patna Medical College and Hospital, where he died.