New Delhi Unidentified corpses, some so highly decomposed that they were reduced to skeletons, floating in Bawana canal from the upstream states have become a “huge headache” for Delhi Police.
The canal flows into the city through Haryana and it is the primary source for the Haiderpur treatment plant that supplies drinking water to Delhi.
“This year, 22 bodies have been fished out from the Bawana canal. Of them, only two could be identified. These belonged to persons from border areas in Delhi. More than 90 per cent of the bodies flow in from Haryana,” a police officer said.
“Most of the corpses have been in water for so long that these were reduced to skeletons. In such cases, identification is impossible,” the officer said.
DCP (Outer) B S Jaiswal said: “The human body begins to bloat in water and decomposes within hours of death. Imagine the level of decomposition that would happen to a corpse floating in the canal for 10 days.”
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