New Delhi: A forensic team has submitted a report on the gruesome discovery of dozens of bones and decayed body parts found in a police morgue in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Sunday.
Police in Uttar Pradesh state said the human remains, discovered on Friday, had apparently been left there after autopsies and had been stored in a post-mortem room that had been locked since 2008.
"Sacks of bones and jars of (decaying) organs were found on Friday. The room had not been used in over six years but some workers spotted them through an open window," senior police official GN Soni told AFP by phone from Unnao district.
"The expert committee has already submitted its report to the district magistrate," Soni added.
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Soni said he did not know where the bodies came from or why they were never cremated, but police have reportedly admitted a lapse in normal procedures for the disposal of bodies after post-mortems.
Authorities will now conduct DNA tests and investigate why "100 bones and skulls" -- some which date back to the early 1980s -- "were left to rot in the room", another district police official, who did not wished to be named, told AFP.
The latest incidents come just weeks after some 100 bodies were found floating in Ganga near a cremation area in Unnao.
Police say the bodies were probably given river burials by families too poor to afford enough wood and other materials for a proper cremation.
