Parents want DNA to be extracted from Sanam Hasan's clothes

Parents of Sanam Hasan, the Symbiosis student who died after taking vill at the birthday party organised by friends, have submitted the clothes that Sanam wore during the party to the forensic laboratory.

Sanam’s parents want forensic experts to extract Sanam’s DNA from the clothes so that exhuming her body can be avoided.

Speaking to dna on Saturday, Sanam’s mother Nagina said, “After Sanam’s death, the police did not even ask for the clothes she had worn on her birthday. We obtained the clothes from the hospital authorities, after the post-mortem. We have kept the clothes as they were.”

She added, “Last week, we gave the garments to the authorities from the State Forensic Medical Laboratory. We expect that the experts from the laboratory would be able to extract her DNA from the clothes. That would enable them get samples of her DNA without exhuming the body. The experts have promised to get back to us in ten days. If the experts succeed, it will help fortify the case.”

Sanam (19), a second-year fashion design student of Symbiosis College in Vimannagar, took ill while in the party thrown by her friends on her birthday on October 2, 2012. She died the next day.

The case is being probed by the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the organiser of the party has been arrested for alleged involvement in causing Sanam’s death due to negligence. dna had carried a series of reports on the goof ups in the forensic tests of Sanam’s viscera, heart, blood and vaginal smear as the DNA extracted from her viscera, heart, blood and vaginal smear did not match her parents’. That had prompted the state CID chief additional director general of police SPS Yadav announce exhumation of her body to extract DNA.