DNA samples sent to Hyderabad

SRINAGAR, MAY 30. A spokesman of the Jammu and Kashmir Government's Department of Information has described as totally incorrect the Hyderabad-datelined report published in TheHindu of May 29, claiming that DNA samples of the five exhumed bodies from Panchathan area of Anantnag district have not been received by the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad.

The spokesman said that Kashmir police had sent the samples, collected by a team of doctors headed by Dr. Balbir Kour of Forensic Department, Government Medical College, Srinagar, for a DNA test to the Central Forensic Laboratory, Calcutta, and CDFD, Hyderabad, through special messengers. Dr. C. V. Rao, chief, DNA Fingerprinting Laboratory, Hyderabad, vide his letter No. CDFD/Ack/GV/2000/685, dated April 13, acknowledged the receipt of the samples delivered through a messenger of the J&K Police.

Similarly, Dr. M. S. Rao, Director, Central Forensic Laboratory, Calcutta, also acknowledged the receipt of the samples vide his letter No. CFSL/EE/2000/Misc, dated April 14.

The spokesman said in view of these facts it is mischievous to claim that the samples have not been received and that the case is still pending with the Chief Minister for 50 days.

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