Allahabad HC seeks information on lady’s skeleton mendacity at Etawah morgue

Taking suo moto cognizance of skeletal stays of a girl mendacity in a morgue in Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah district for the previous three years, the Allahabad excessive court docket has directed the state authorities to supply detailed directions (info) within the matter.

The court docket additionally directed that the case diary and the standing of the investigations shall even be revealed within the directions.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Pritinker Diwaker and Justice Ajay Bhanot in its order noticed, “The newspaper report discloses that the skeletal stays of a girl are locked up in an Etawah morgue for the previous three years. The identification of the physique is disputed. A household has claimed that the physique of the stated deceased particular person is of their lacking daughter-Rita. The DNA report in response to the newspaper doesn’t give any conclusive opinion.”

Taking a severe word of it, the court docket directed the respondents—state authorities—in addition to police authorities to acquire detailed directions disclosing the stand of the state on the next points:

First, the time interval by which the final rites of a physique in a morgue are performed as per apply and the trigger for delay on this case and secondly whether or not there was any legislation below which the state authorities are to carry out final rites of a physique in a morgue inside a stipulated time frame?

Thirdly, the court docket sought particulars of the investigations and the timeline of occasions from the preservation of the physique within the morgue until date shall be adverted to within the directions.

The court docket additionally directed that the case diary and the standing of the investigations shall even be revealed within the directions.

“This can embody the date on which the samples have been extracted and despatched to the Hyderabad-based Forensic Science Laboratory for DNA profiling and the date of the DNA report,” the court docket added.

Contemplating the significance of the matter, court docket in its order dated October 26 appointed Nitin Sharma, a excessive court docket lawyer as amicus curiae to help the court docket. The court docket directed to place up the matter on October 31, 2023. HTC

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