The DNA samples from 18 bodies, found in the Kedar valley have been matched with the DNA of family members who had lost their kinfolks in the June 2013 disaster here,” said Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) GS Martolia on Monday.
The DIG appealed those families whose relatives have been missing since the June 2013 disaster in the Kedar valley to submit their DNA samples at Dehradun Forensic Science laboratory (FSl). The collected DNA profiles will be sent to Hyderabad based Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, reviewed and matched with DNA samples collected from the 630 bodies found in the Kedar valley since the disaster last year.
Martolia said that the names of 18 persons whose DNA samples were matched with those from the bodies recovered in the Kedar valley include Siyaram Mali of Karouli, Rajasthan; Rajesh Kumar of Jodhpur, Rajasthan; Bishan lal Meena of Dausa, Rajasthan; Ramji Shukla of Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh; Anil Gupta of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir; Kallu of Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh; Chandralekha Jatt of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh; Amit of Bhavnagar, Gujarat; Doliram of Bharatpur, Rajasthan, Rajai Kumar of lucknow, Uttar Pradesh; Shailesh Goyal, Ravi Kant, Ashok Kumar and Pradeep Sharma of Gurgaon, Haryana; Ashish Aggarwal of Sadar Bazaar, Delhi, Rakesh Pathak of Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh and Kiran lata Jatt of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.
According to the DIG, the police had collected around 630 DNA samples so far from bodies found in the Kedar valley and around 191 members of families, who had lost their loved ones in the disaster, had also given their DNA samples to the police in the hope of knowing the fate of their family
members.
Martolia appealed that members of families whose relatives have been missing since the June 2013 disaster in the Kedar valley should submit their DNA samples at Dehradun Forensic Science laboratory (FSl). The family members can either submit their DNA samples in the Doon Hospital or alternately can also do the same at any hospital in the place of residence and then send the sample to the FSl in Dehradun.
The collected DNA profiles will be sent to Hyderabad based FSl, reviewed and matched with DNA samples collected from the bodies found in the Kedar valley.