Dispose unclaimed bodies in 2 weeks: HC

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed government hospitals — where bodies of unidentified victims of north-east violence were lying in mortuaries — to dispose bodies in two weeks after getting their details published in newspapers.

A division bench of

Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rajnish Bhatnagar directed that the respondents (Delhi Police) should call complainants in the missing persons cases and inform them about unidentified bodies lying in mortuaries and ask them to help identify them.

Delhi Police, through senior standing counsel Rahul Mehra, told the court that autopsies on these bodies had been videotaped and DNA samples preserved as per earlier court orders.

On Friday, the court had directed all government hospitals to videotape all post-mortems on bodies of victims of Delhi riots.