Dead body shuttles for sex determination

Vijay Upadhyay
AGRA MEDICAL science may have made prenatal sex determination a child's play but a dead body has been shuttling between Agra and Lucknow for 10 days now just to determine its sex. Rekha, wife of Hari Om, was allegedly killed for dowry by her in-laws on January 4.
Her body was being cremated surreptitiously when her brothers arrived to retrieve it from the burning pier. However, by then the body was charred beyond recognition and her in-laws had escaped.
It was handed over to the police for verification. They first sent it for a post mortem examination and then to the Forensic Science Laboratory for determining whether it was a male or female corpse. Surprisingly, the lab failed to identify the sex and referred the bones to its counterpart in Lucknow. From here too the bones returned with a request for coloured photos and X-rays for further analysis.
Last Thursday, the police got the charred remains photographed, X-rayed and sent to Lucknow. However, that too failed to help them come to a conclusion. Says Maharaj Singh, SHO of the Fatehabad police station where the case is registered: "The X-rays have now been sent to Agra Medical College for expert opinion from anatomists."
Till then Rekha, her brothers and justice will have no option but to wait!

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