A two-member committee has been constituted to probe the recovery of around 100 skeletons from a room in the local police lines and a team of forensic experts from Lucknow has been sent to the spot at Unnao.

The room was meant for storing viscera samples and other human remains like unidentified mutilated bodies which were sent for postmortem and had to be preserved for further action on the basis of court orders, an official said.

Forensic expert Ashutosh, who rushed in here from Lucknow, said nothing could be commented before the test was complete. Proper probe and DNA testing would be done to corroborate the facts, he said.

The skeletons were kept in 22-25 sacks scattered all around in the locked room of the Reserve Police Lines, located opposite the police quarters and Mahila police station.

The matter came to light when some painters were working inside the Reserve Police Lines premises, when they curiously peeped into the room through an open window and saw human remains piled up in huge number. They immediately alerted the police, who rushed there.

No one initially dared to enter the room that emanated unbearable stench. It was only with the help of some class IV civic employees arranged by the Unnao police that investigators entered the room and the remains were taken away to the district hospital mortuary.

Local police believe that the heap of bones and skulls in the room could be the body parts that were used for crime investigation and left in that room, which was once the store of a police hospital but has been lying unused and has been locked up for years.