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FIR against Gujarat gravediggers
UNFAZED BY the high court ordering a CBI-supervised DNA testing of the skeletal remains unearthed from a riverbank in Panchmahals last week, an FIR has been lodged against 11 people for digging up what the municipality claims is a notified mass graveyard.
UNFAZED BY the high court ordering a CBI-supervised DNA testing of the skeletal remains unearthed from a riverbank in Panchmahals last week, an FIR has been lodged against 11 people for digging up what the municipality claims is a notified mass graveyard.
The sanitary inspector of the Lunawada municipality on Monday filed complaints with the police against NGO activist Raees Khan Pathan and 10 others for 'illegally' digging up the graves.
Pathan told HT that the riverbank was not a notified graveyard and thus the digging was not 'illegal'. He said the FIR was aimed at derailing the process of DNA testing. State DGP A.K. Bhargava said it was illegal to dig up graves without permission.
The state government had earlier stated that all the bodies present in the grave are accounted for and have been buried by the local municipality after following due legal procedures including post-mortem.
