Hopes of the parents of TN express fire mishap victim Jaswant Singh, 17, of Punjab were shattered after the DNA test carried out at Centre for DNA Fingerprinting Department (CDFD), Hyderabad, recently proved that one of the unclaimed bodies is their biological son. The parents have been searching for him believing that he is alive.
It may be recalled that 28 passengers travelling in S-11 coach of Tamil Nadu Express bound for Chennai were charred to death in a fire mishap soon after the train crossed Nellore railway station during the early hours of July 30 last year.
Railway police have sought DNA test with blood samples of the parents of Jaswant Singh and Avinash. The samples of the parents were compared at CDFD with the tissue and bone samples of two bodies and also with six body pieces recovered from the coach. The samples of the male body tallied with the blood samples of Jaswant Singh parents, Ravinder Singh and Kamaljit Kaur.
Railway DSP of Nellore G. Srinivasa Rao had informed Ravinder Singh about the DNA matching after receiving the report few days ago. Close relatives of the victim Gurudev Singh, Amarik Singh and Manjit Singh came to Nellore on Saturday at the instance of the DSP.
The relatives decided to take Jaswant’s bones collected for DNA test and immerse in a holy river at Shri Kartarpur Sahib in Punjab since last rites were already performed before burying at Nellore. They decided to offer prayers at the graveyard where Jaswant Singh was buried.
Sunday 17 February 2013
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130217/news-current-affairs/article/dna-test-tallied-punjab-boy
0 comments:
Post a Comment