Skeletons have tumbled out of the UP Police's cupboard – quite literally this time. Over a hundred human skeletons have been found in a room in the Unnao Police Lines on Thursday. The authorities are totally clueless about how the skeletons got there or about the identity of those whom the skeletal remains belong to. The recovery of the skeletons gets more ghastly and rather upsetting for local residents as over a hundred unidentified bodies were recently found floating in the Ganga at Unnao.
Skeletons have tumbled out of the UP Police's cupboard – quite literally this time. Over a hundred human skeletons have been found in a room in the Unnao Police Lines on Thursday. The authorities are totally clueless about how the skeletons got there or about the identity of those whom the skeletal remains belong to. The recovery of the skeletons gets more ghastly and rather upsetting for local residents as over a hundred unidentified bodies were recently found floating in the Ganga at Unnao.
What is the official version?
IG (law and order) A Satish Ganesh told reporters in Lucknow that the place where the skeletons were found used to be the store room of an old police hospital which used to function in the Unnao Police Lines. This hospital has remained closed for about 15 years now. He said post mortem analyses of unidentified bodies used to be done at this hospital. "We have a register there which has details of the bodies brought in for post mortem examination. We are looking into it and would be able to say anything further only after an indepth inquiry," he said.
What is the legal position in this regard?
Senior high court advocate IB Singh says there is no provision under the Cr PC (Criminal Penal Code) requiring the preservation of the entire body or the skeleton for investigation purposes. "The provision is only for preserving the viscera (certain parts of the body) in medico-legal cases," he told DNA. Singh said that the police were legally bound to dispose of the unidentified bodies with dignity whether they are cremated or buried. "Prima facie, in this case, it seems the bodies were just dumped in the store room. This is indeed inhuman," he remarked.
How many bodies are there?
No one has a precise count of the bodies yet because the skeletal remains are too old, and also because the skulls and other bones are scattered haphazardly. Many of them have been found bundled up in sacks, obviously to be disposed of, but perhaps weren't because the men in uniform were too lazy to carry out this rather "unfruitful" job.
What happens next?
As always happens in government functioning, a "high level inquiry" has been ordered, though, as usual, not time-bound. The officials would wait for the media hype and public outcry to die down and the matter to be laid to rest, as it were. The Union Home Ministry had ordered the "high level" probe into the recovery of bodies vrom the Ganga, too. But nothing has come of it yet. The latest incident, horrifying as it may be, is likely to meet a similar fate.
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