Two employees of homeopathic college detained, quizzed; cadavers sent for autopsy
TEAM HERALD
bureau@herald-goa.com
PONDA: In an unusual incident, nine cadavers from a medical college were found discarded at an unused crematorium at Karai-Shiroda on Saturday.
An anonymous caller had informed the police control room that the remains of two human bodies were sighted at the Karai crematorium on Friday evening.
However due to darkness, Ponda police who went to the site could not initially ascertain if the information was genuine or not.
A police team returned to the site on Saturday morning and noticed the remains of two human bodies at the site. Police then discovered seven more bodies partially covered in mud in an adjacent pit.
On a closer inspection of the bodies, police realized that the human bodies were cadavers that may have been used for academic purpose in a medical college.
This development led one police team to the ayurvedic college in Shiroda. College authorities then took the police to the site near the college, where they disposed of the cadavers in a proper manner.
The other police team proceeded to the homeopathic college, also located in the village. Police were then informed that two employees of the homeopathic college had been entrusted with the task of disposing of the nine cadavers.
Police then interrogated the two employees and they admitted having discarded the cadavers at the unused crematorium at Karai. The two employees were then detained. Police questioned the two workers to ascertain why they had not disposed of the cadavers in a proper manner.
To rule out any foul play in the matter, Ponda police sent the nine cadavers to the GMC for an autopsy.
