A Delhi court has criticized the Gurugram Police for improper actions concerning an unidentified body that was cremated
A missing-person report had been registered at Lajpat Nagar Police Station on September 11. The complainant not only lost her brother to allegedly a brutal murder but could not even see or cremate his body due to the lapses of the Gurugram Police.
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Tuesday questioned how a body recovered as unidentified could be cremated before police had completed basic identification procedures, observing “clear negligence and a failure to follow the Standard Operating Procedures established for such cases” by Badshahpur Police, Gurgaon. The court said, “In this case, there was a delay of six crucial days in uploading this data. The court further flagged the failure to inform the Executive Magistrate as required under Section 194 BNSS and questioned the inquest, noting that police had relied on a “local property dealer’s claim” that the deceased had drowned without properly examining suspicious circumstances or preserving the site. as submitted by advocates Amit Prasad, Neharika Kushwah and Rajat Jain, the report recorded “NIL” external injuries, “No Abnormality Detected” in several internal structures and concluded that death was due to ante-mortem drowning While disclosure by two accused in Delhi Police investigation indicated Yuvraj had been shot twice near the neck.
This delay not only affected evidence preservation but also denied the family their right to perform the last rites of the deceased. It explained that ZIPNET allows police to circulate details of unidentified bodies across police units and match them with missing-person reports.
The court observed how none of the forensic samples were preserved to help the investigation, adding “It is worthwhile to note that the doctor only preserved a blood sample on gauze for DNA testing. In cases of advanced decomposition or questionable drowning, the doctor was required to preserve viscera for chemical analysis to check for poisoning and femur bone or sternum for diatom testing( which helps in identifying the cause as post mortem drowning or ante mortem drowning). ”