Badaun: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday stopped the procedure to exhume the bodies of Dalit sisters for fresh autopsy due to rain and rise in the water level of river Ganga. The investigating agency officials were finding it difficult to locate the bodies.
The operation will continue on Sunday
The doctors had advised the investigating agency to carry out fresh autopsy at the earliest keeping in mind the prevailing weather conditions in the state. The CBI sources said that they will have to abide by the doctors' advice.
Earlier, Irrigation department had warned the CBI that if the bodies were not exhumed in the next two days, it would become difficult due to the rising water levels in Ganga owing to incessant rains in Uttarakhand.
The doctors, who will perform fresh autopsy, can either take samples on the spot and ask for the bodies to be buried again or they can recommend the bodies be taken to a mortuary for further examination.
The need for a fresh post-mortem was taken by the probe agency earlier this month as it felt that proper procedure was not followed while conducting the postmortem. CBI sources had said that it was conducted at night, which is usually against laid down procedures and is only done in exceptional emergency cases.
Moreover, the autopsy report of the state government was only suggestive of rape without conclusively proving it and was conducted by a lady doctor who had no prior experience of it, sources had said.
The two cousins, aged 14 and 15, went missing from their house on the night of May 27 and their bodies were found hanging from a tree in the village in Ushait area the next day.
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