11 cops on 24-hour duty to protect Pathankot attackers' bodies

March 29, 2016 19:18

Eleven policemen have been on duty round-the-clock at the civil hospital morgue in Pathankot for the past almost three months to protect the bodies of four terrorists killed after they attacked the air force base in January.

An NIA official said the hospital authorities have been asked to preserve the bodies as they are "evidence for us", and this has kept the policemen on their toes.

The visiting JIT from Pakistan did not examine the bodies on Tuesday, officials said.

"It has been 80 days now. I cannot afford to lower guard even for a minute," constable Dalbir Singh, whose job, along with his colleagues', is to protect the morgue in the

only government hospital, said.

Head constable Vinod Kumar is on alert whenever anybody approaches the morgue.

"We have clear instructions not to allow anyone near the room. If terrorists could come till the airbase, then this place cannot be beyond their reach. Our senior officers conduct daily rounds to check on the bodies and a van from the police control room is also stationed near the boundary wall every night," Kumar said.

The terrorists were eliminated in a counteroffensive by security forces on January 2. The bodies were handed over to the hospital on January 7, the hospital authorities said.

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