Recovery Of Human Skeleton From Seized Vehicle: OSCW Directs CP To Submit Report Within A Month

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Commission For Women on Tuesday sought a report from Commissionerate Police in connection with the discovery of a human skeleton inside a seized vehicle parked at the Janla outpost compound.

The Chairman of OSCW has directed the Commissionerate Police to submit the report within a month.

Earlier, a senior police official was suspended for dereliction of duty in this connection.

Notably, Bhubaneswar DCP Umashankar Dash had informed that the vehicle was seized by the Ganjam police in a narcotics case in 2019. The seized vehicle was parked on the campus of the Janla police outpost since then.

The human skeleton had been spotted after a team from the Berhampur police visited the Janla outpost in February this year to release the vehicle.

Following the detection, the human skeleton had been sent to AIIMS Bhubaneswar for autopsy. The post-mortem reports ascertained the gender of the skeleton to be of a woman around 45-year-old.

As per the post mortem report, the deceased was suffering from tuberculosis and had died of natural causes. The senior official at the outpost has been put under suspension for his failure to detect the incident that occurred within the compound.