Wednesday, December 28 2005 15:02 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Ahmedabad: A writ petition was today (Dec 28, 2005) filed in Gujarat High Court by a relative of a post-Godhra riot victim, seeking a CBI investigation and DNA testing on the bodies found in a mass grave in Lunavada village of Panchmahal district of the state.

The petition was filed before High Court judge Justice C K Buch after some of the relatives of riot victims yesterday dug up a mass grave besides Panam river and claimed that the skeletal remains found there might be of those killed in a massacre in nearby Pandrawada village during 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat.

The petition was filed by a resident of Pandarwada village, Ameena Habib Rasool, whose young son was killed during the communal frenzy in the state, while an NGO, "Citizens for Justice and Peace" is the second petitioner.

The petitioners in their main prayer has stated that the samples of the skeletal remains, unearthed by the relatives, be sealed immediately and the remains be sent to Red Hill Laboratory in Hyderabad for DNA testing.