Seven years on, 19 dead bodies of the victims Samjhauta Express twin bomb blasts are lying buried unidentified at Panipat's burial ground. At the same time, kin of victims are running from the pillar to post to get the death certificates.
68 persons, most of them Pakistani nationals were killed in the twin bomb blasts in Attari (Pakistan bound) cross border Samjhauta Express near Deewana railway station on the night intervening February 18 and 19, 2007. Dead bodies of 45 victims were identified. 23 dead bodies were given the mass burial. As on now 19 dead bodies are still unidentified and are lying in the burial ground.
After a four-year-long probe, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on June 20 last year charged suspected right-wing extremist Swami Aseemanand and four others with triggering explosions in the cross-border Samjhauta Express.
But due to non release of DNA reports by Hydrabad's central forensic laboratory, kins of those believed to be dead are a harried lot these days.
Momin Malik, the Panipat based lawyer, who had been pursuing the cases related to claims of kins of those dead claimed that even after assurance by NIA officials couple of months ago, nothing has happened so far.
Sometimes we feel ashamed due to the attitude of authorities in Hydrabad as well as Indian government. There are four such persons whose families have been wiped out in the incident. Just because of the delay in DNA reports neither those families have got the death certificates nor they have been given the claims,'' Malik said.
There is a girl called Raheela, who has lost her father Mohammad Vakil, the government has neither issued his death certficiate nor government has been able to search him. We ourselves have searched around 90 jails in India so far, he added further.
Tuesday 18 February 2014
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