Hyderabad: Four days after they died in a fire accident at the Avone Air Coolers godown here, the bodies of the victims were not handed over to their families because the DNA test results to identify them were not filed.
Police said the DNA samples were collected from the family members of the victims, and had been sent to a forensic lab for testing to affix the ascertain the identity of the victims. The family members reached the city on Friday.
This was being done so that fraudsters do not take the bodies by claiming to be their relatives, in view of the compensation ordered to be paid by the state government.
Once the results are released, the bodies will be handed over to their families, a police official said.
The victims were identified as Irfan Ansari, Mohammed Ansari, Shahnawaz Ansari, Deep Narayan Yadav and Maqsood Ahmed.
Meanwhile, D. Pramod Kumar, who owned the cooler manufacturing unit, was arrested and sent to jail under IPC Section 304 Clause (2) which amounts to culpable homicide.
Six migrant workers from Jharkand were charred to death when a fire broke out in an air cooler manufacturing unit in Attapur on Wednesday. The unit was locked, and the workers could not escape the inferno. The premises was also used as a godown for an adjacent unit, also owned by Pramod Kumar, that used to fabricate battery-operated vehicles.
