While a two-member committee has been constituted to probe the recovery of dozens of skeletons from a room in the local police lines at Unnao and a team of forensic experts from lucknow has been sent to the spot, the probe so far pointed that the recovery has been made just as the room was used to house viscera and bones samples of the victims, whose post-mortem examination has been conducted there before the mortuary came up at district hospital.
According to probe made so far by ao police, the said room (adjacent to police hospital) was meant for storing viscera samples and other human remains like unidentified mutilated bodies which were sent for postmortem and had to be preserved for further action on the basis of court orders. The said practice has been adopted till 1993 before the mortuary was shifted to district hospital and post-mortem were conducted there.
Sources also confirmed that after the room at district hospital, used to house some human remains was filled in 2008, the above room was again used to store viscera. Chief Pharmacist of Police Hospital in Unnao, also confirmed the above. The responsibility for security of the above room is of inspector of reserve police lines. Now the probe has been also made that how the window and glasses of the above room, has been broken and that why the said fact has been not brought to notice to senior officers and they only learnt when media high-lighted the issue.
The above facts will be now looked by joint committee formed by district magistrate of Unnao. “A two-member committee comprising an official from the district administration and a police officer has been set up to go into the matter,” District Magistrate, Unnao, Soumya Agarwal said on Friday. Besides, a team of forensic experts from lucknow has been rushed to the spot.
It may be mentioned that the recovery of around 100 skeletons from the local police lines’ room in Unnao sent the cops into tizzy as the matter came to light barely a fortnight after as many bodies were found from the river Ganges. Te skeletons were kept in 22-25 sacks scattered all round in the locked room of the Reserve Police lines.
