Mass burial: Skeletal stays discovered at new website in Dharmasthala

The Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) probing the alleged mass burial case in Dharmasthala on Monday recovered a number of skeletal stays from a brand new website identified by the unidentified complainant, police sources mentioned.

Underneath the supervision of director-general of police (DGP) Pranab Mohanty, the SIT halted exhumations on the designated eleventh website and redirected operations to a beforehand unexamined spot at a spot known as Banglegudde.

The brand new website, situated on an elevated terrain almost 100 ft excessive, has yielded a number of skeletal fragments, together with skulls and different human bones, sources within the police mentioned.

In response to sources, the SIT, which is investigating the case of a whole lot of alleged unlawful burials between 1995 and 2014, has already gathered Unnatural Demise Report (UDR) data for the interval. Regardless of earlier data being tampered with or lacking from Belthangady police archives, prior knowledge assortment ordered by Mohanty quickly after the SIT’s structure helped protect essential proof.

Police officers mentioned the recovered skeletal stays have been despatched to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) to find out age, gender, and potential reason for loss of life. The skeletal stays that had been recovered from website no. 6 on 31 July have additionally been despatched for forensic examination.