Thoothukudi: Post-mortem has been completed on two bodies of the 12 killed in police firing in Thoothukudi against the anti-Sterlite protesters on Tuesday.
Though the relatives of 10 men and women killed in police firing on the two days on May 22 and 23, objected to perform autopsy, relatives of two victims--Karthik and Shanmugam-, gave their consent following which autopsy was performed for the two bodies on Wednesday.
The bodies, however, were not handed over to the relatives as the Madurai bench of Madras high court had issued an order to preserve the dead bodies of all those killed in police firing till the further order is issued on May 31.
Responding to DC on whether the mortuary at Thoothukudi medical college has facilities to preserve the bodies for seven more days, Dr Edwin Joe, director of Medical Education (DME) said that the mortuary at the hospital is well equipped with adequate cold storage facilities with uninterrupted power supply to preserve the 12 bodies.
