An au­top­sy has con­firmed that 60-year-old Bachan Sam­lal, the paral­ysed Bar­rack­pore man whose home was de­stroyed by fire ear­li­er this month, died from shock and as­phyx­ia, and po­lice say no foul play is sus­pect­ed.

The post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion was con­duct­ed around 11 am on Fri­day at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James by Dr Parthasarathi Pra­manik. Po­lice said the pro­ce­dure, which was wit­nessed by PC Subero, de­ter­mined that Sam­lal’s death was an un­nat­ur­al one caused by the ef­fects of the fire.

Sam­lal died af­ter a fire de­stroyed his wood­en three-bed­room home at Sand Hill Trace, Bar­rack­pore, on March 1.