HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Police on Monday launched a dedicated vehicle ‘Forensic Corpse Carrier’ to shift bodies from the scene of crime to mortuary.
Hyderabad police commissioner M Mahendar Reddy said in most of the crime cases like suspicious deaths, murder, burning, drowning, firing, explosions, poisoning and accident cases, the body is subjected to autopsy to elucidate the fact of act by medical examination and specimen preservation.
The initiative is a first of its kind in the country, he said. ‘‘Carrying corpse to the mortuary is a challenging task for the investigating officer because owners of the carrier vehicles do not show interest to use their vehicle to carry the corpse. In recent news about a tribal man, Majhi in Odisha walked nearly 10 km with his daughter to his village Melhara of Kalahandi district, carrying his wife’s body on his shoulder, after he was denied a mortuary van from a government hospital. Keeping this in view, we have decided to introduce vehicles to carry bodies to mortuary,’’ Mahender Reddy said.
Police would provide additional stretchers, stalk of body covers, surgical gloves, disposable caps and masks, cutter and scissors, cotton among other items.
The vehicle would be stationed at Traffic complex and upon the requisition from the investigating officer concerned, it would be sent to the crime site and the corpse carried to the autopsy centre.