Court Seeks Report From Delhi On SOP For DNA Testing To Identify Bodies

Justice Prathiba M Singh, while dealing with a plea filed in the aftermath of the riots of February 2020 in Delhi.

The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the city government to file a status report on the issue of formulation of a standard operating procedure (SoP) for DNA testing to carry out the identification of bodies.

Justice Prathiba M Singh, while dealing with a plea filed in the aftermath of the riots of February 2020 in Delhi, noted that the high court has earlier said that such procedures ought to be prepared but the issue was stated to have remained unresolved.

The court's order was passed while dealing with a petition filed in March 2020 by a man who sought directions from the authorities to expeditiously conclude the process of DNA matching to find out if one of the recovered bodies was that of his brother who went missing amidst the violence in North-East Delhi.

"Examine it and come back," the court told the counsel for the Delhi government.