Thursday, December 29 2005 14:20 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court today (Dec 29,2005) began hearing on a petition seeking a CBI probe into the skeletal remains 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 yesterday after some of the relatives of Gujarat riot victims dug up a mass grave besides the Panam river and found skeletal remains believed to be of those killed in the a massacre in nearby Pandrawada village during the 2002 riots.

The petition was filed by one of the relatives of the riot victims while an NGO 'Citizens for Justice and Peace' was the second petitioner in the case.

The petitioners have also asked that the samples of the skeletal remains be sealed immediately and sent to Red Hill laboratory in Hyderabad for DNA testing.