Wednesday, September 2, 2015


Aug 29 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai)
Skull, bones recovered from where Pen police buried Sheena's dumped body 
Navi MumbaiMumbai: 
TNN 


Recreating Face Through Tech, DNA Tests Likely
Navi MumbaiMumbai: The Mumbai police on Friday recovered human skeletal remains from the spot where the charred corpse purported to be that of Sheena Bora's was dumped in a suitcase three years ago.The recovery of a skull and bones is significant in the case that witnessed police apathy as well as goof-up in handling the body . The Mumbai police plan to use the advanced superimposition technology on the skull to recreate the face, besides sending the remains for DNA test.
Aconstable who had buried the body close to the spot where it had been dumped near Gagode Khurd village along the Khopoli-Pen road was reportedly called in on Friday . He led Mumbai police's team of forensic experts to the spot.
“After going deep into the ravines through a bushy pathway , we were told to dig at a particular place. After digging for about three feet, we found a skull and some bones of the hands and legs,“ said a worker.
On May 23, 2012, the partially burnt body packed in a suitcase was recovered by the Pen police from 40to 50-ft ravines after villagers complained of a stench. Strangely , the Pen police did not begin a probe despite the tell-tale signs of foul play.
The forensic team reached the spot at around 6am, found the remains after about two hours of digging and left at around 3pm with the exhumed samples. “The Pen police team was summoned only to keep away local villagers. They were not even permitted in the spot where the workers dug and exhumed the bones,“ said assistant police inspector Mapankar of Pen police station.
Sources said the police are likely to use the technology of superimposition of skull to reconstruct and identify whose skull it could be. Superimposition has been applied to skulls of corpses as an identification method. It involves layering of a skull and matching it with a photograph. “We had used a similar technology to identify the body of a terrorist found after the Mumbai serial train blasts in 2006,“ said an officer.
Meanwhile, Konkan IG Prashant Burde refused to comment on the Pen police's goofup. “From electronic media reports, I have learnt that the forensic experts have found some human bones and I have sought a report from the Raigad superintendent of police,“ Burde said. Despite repeated attempts, Raigad SP Mohammad Suez Haque was unavailable for comments.
“It is a shocking case of nonregistration of murder. Under the police manual, even with the slightest suspicion of foul play , the police should register a case of murder. If the cause of death is unclear, they should have registered a case of unnatural death and investigated it. A body can be disposed of only after a police officer conducts an inquest on the body or the remnants in the first stage and then in the second stage, a post-mortem has to be conducted and the viscera preserved. The violations are so glaring that it could be a case of connivance,“ said IPS officerturned-lawyer Y P Singh. 

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