more-inThe Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the State government to complete post-mortem on the bodies of all of those who had died in police firing during protests against the Sterlite Copper smelter in Thoothukudi on May 22 and 23 and hand over the bodies to the family members at the earliest. The First Division Bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice P.T. Advocate General Vijay Narayan brought it to the notice of the first Bench that the State government had initially conducted post- mortem only on seven bodies and not the rest for want of cooperation from the relatives. In the meantime, the court ordered that all the 13 bodies should be preserved and not handed over to the relatives. However, the Supreme Court refused to take up their plea as an urgent case, and hence, they had approached the High Court once again, the AG said.

Source: The Hindu June 05, 2018 19:59 UTC