New Delhi: The rising water level of the Ganga on Saturday forced the CBI to suspend the process of exhuming the bodies of the two cousins who were allegedly gangraped and murdered in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district on May 27.
Following the advice of the three-member medical board, the CBI tried to exhume the bodies on Saturday afternoon but the rising water threatened to submerge the graves.
The agency sleuths are apparently miffed at an alleged delay on the part of the medical board, which was constituted by the CBI to decide if a fresh autopsy was required in view of certain inadequacies in the first post-mortem done by Badaun doctors.
The bodies could have been exhumed earlier had the board not delayed its decision that a fresh autopsy was needed, a senior official of the agency said. The medical board and a CBI team are camping in Badaun and will review the situation on Sunday before proceeding to exhume the bodies, the official said.
