Director-General and Inspector-General of Police M.A. Saleem has asked the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the alleged burial of bodies in Dharmasthala village, to also investigate a complaint about the police allegedly burying a girl’s body without registering a case in the village.
In the complaint filed with the Dharmasthala police on August 4, one T. Jayant alleged that the body of a 15-year-old girl was found lying on the roadside in the village between 2002 and 2003. The police buried it without registering a case and conducting post-mortem as mandatorily required. A police official told local people that it was the body of a 40-year-old woman who committed suicide.
Mr. Jayant had earlier taken his complaint to the SIT on August 2 and the SIT in turn asked him to approach the Dharmasthala police. After the Dharmasthala police received the complaint as a petition on August 4, Mr. Saleem ordered it to be transferred to the SIT.
Mr. Saleem also transferred to the SIT a case pertaining to the discovery of skeletal remains in burial site no. 6 on July 31 during the exhumation. It was among the 13 burial sites shown by the 50-year-old former sanitation worker to the SIT for exhuming.
