Over 400 died without identity in Delhi in first two months
29 March 2018 9:52 PM IST
New Delhi: A 53-year-old man, 168 cm in height, face round, wearing a light blue shirt and blue jeans found in South West Delhi in February was one of the 400 unidentified bodies which were found in National Capital in first two months of New Year 2018.
The data accessed by Millennium Post from January 1 to February 28 this year revealed that around 409 unidentified bodies were recovered from different parts of the national Capital. The investigation by the police starts as soon as they recover the body. First, they check that if there is any tattoo or birthmark in the body, which sometimes help police in identification. Second, they look for if there is any piece of paper which can help him in his identification.
There was a suicide case in the Shahdara area where a person had jumped from a building in GTB Nagar. There was no identity card of the victim. There was, however, a suicide note. The dialect used in the suicide note indicated that the man might be from Uttar Pradesh or Bihar. This was one type of investigation, which the city police conducted for the identification.
The bodies recovered from railway tracks, streets, parks, abandoned places, etc pose a tough chanllenge to investigators as such cases have always been a hard nut to crack. The police also probe the reason behind such deaths and to know whether the deaths are natural or not.
In few of the cases, the police team had to check CCTV footages of the spot where the bodies were found in real time to know from where the persons came. For the bodies which are found on railway tracks, the police contact other states seeking missing details from there. In Zonal Integrated Police Network (zip net.in), police put the information about such unidentified bodies besides taking the help of advertisement in newspapers. The bodies are preserved for a minimum of 72 hours or three days in mortuary and the police meanwhile try to identify the relatives.
Reported first by the Millennium Post in 2017, the city police data claimed that in three years (2015 to 2017), as many as 8,486 dead bodies were recovered from different parts of national Capital. The year 2015 witnessed a total of 3,063 dead bodies whereas in 2016 more than 3,000 bodies were recovered. Till November 2017, agencies recovered 2,415 bodies from various parts of the city.
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