Budaun rape-murder: CBI begins exhumation of bodies
July 19, 2014  16:39

With the level of river Ganga rising, the CBI constituted medical board to look into the alleged rape and murder of two girls in UP's Badaun district will exhume the bodies of the victims today for fresh autopsy.  

 

Reports have now suggested that the exhumation process has begun. CBI has earlier planned to carry out the process tomorrow but in the wake of rising levels of Ganga threatening to inundate the graves, the medical board has decided to do so today.        

 

\CBI sources said the agency has made all the arrangements to conduct fresh autopsy near the graves.        

 

Unless there is a compelling reason to do post-mortem elsewhere, the medical board will undertake the process on the spot.       

 

The sources said the board of three-forensic experts has recommended that fresh autopsy was needed before forming any opinion which will necessitate exhumation of bodies.        

 

Following the recommendation, CBI has taken permission from appropriate authority, to exhume the bodies and proceed with fresh postmortem.         The sources said there was no need to take consent of the family members and only permission required is from the local authorities.        

 

Concerns were raised by locals that level of Ganga river, which flows adjacent to the grave of the minors, is rising because of heavy rains in Uttarakhand and might inundate it.        

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