The Madras High Court today declined to modify its order directing the Tamil Nadu government to preserve until further orders the bodies of those killed during the anti-Sterlite protest at Tuticorin on May 22. Such cases of mass preservation would accelerate decomposition, the government said. In light of these circumstances, the bodies can be handed over to the relatives, he submitted. If the bodies were embalmed and kept under preservation, there was every possibility of the public gatecrashing into the hospital and creating law and order problems. The bench had yesterday passed an interim order directing the authorities to preserve the bodies of those killed on May 22, until further orders.

Source: dna May 24, 2018 17:48 UTC