Thursday, December 29 2005 17:11 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High court today (Dec 29, 2005) ordered that the samples of the skeletal remains, unearthed from a mass grave in Lunavada village of Panchmahal district, be collected and sent to a laboratory in Hyderabad for DNA testing under the supervision of CBI.

The court was hearing a petition filed before Justice C K Buch yesterday after some of the relatives of Gujarat riot victims dug up a mass grave besides Panam river and found skeletal remains believed to be of those killed in the massacre in nearby Pandrawada village during the 2002 riots.

The order was issued by Justice Buch. 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 had also asked that the samples of the skeletal remains be sealed immediately and sent to Red Hill laboratory in Hyderabad for DNA testing.