Since the three-month operation Shinakht campaign was launched on May 1 by the additional director general of police, law and order, Uttarakhand Ashok Kumar, the unidentified bodies recovered from 2015 to March 31 2018 are being matched with those who went missing from the State. As part of the operation, identification team has been formed in each district of the State with either an Inspector or a sub-inspector heading it. While senior district level officers are acting as the nodal officers police officers of the rank of superintendent of police, additional superintendent of police and deputy superintendent of police are also monitoring the progress of the operation from the police headquarters.
Kumar chaired a review meeting on Wednesday to take stock of the progress made from May 1 to June 12. He instructed the officers concerned to prepare details of each of the bodies recovered in the state separately and to keep them at the police station levels. They would be supervised by the SSP and DSP, Kumar said.
He further said that all the details of the recovered bodies, including the clothes, injury marks, tattoos and other marks, should be stored along with photos taken of the bodies from different angles. “We must go all-out to identify the still unidentified bodies. Besides, messages would be disseminated through the social media to the people, seeking information about the missing and the unidentified bodies,” he said, adding that it is also available on the website of Uttarakhand Police (https://uttarakhandpolice.uk.gov.in/pages/show/108-crime).
As per the police sources, in course of the campaign from May 1 to June 12, 36 unidentified bodies (31 men and five women) have been identified. Apart from this, 182 of a total 204 missing persons have been traced. Furthermore, Manoj Manwal, in-charge of Pauri Garhwal's team, and the team members, including the sub-inspector Kripal Singh have been given Rs 2500 by way of lauding their successful initiatives taken during the drive so far.