more-in The Delhi High Court on Monday said there was “something fishy” about the manner in which the police were going about investigating the killing of an unidentified woman, whose body was found in Shanti Van here last week. ‘Protecting someone’ A Bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar also said the Delhi Police appeared to be protecting someone, as they had sent the body for post-mortem four days after the court had directed them to do so forthwith on May 16. “Why did you wait till May 20 [Sunday]? Whom are you trying to protect? There is something fishy in this…You have allowed valuable evidence to vanish,” the Bench said. The police said they were waiting for the body to be identified. They also said the medical examiners had assured there would be no problems with the autopsy in case of delay of a few days and that the body was kept under well-refrigerated conditions. The court’s was hearing a petition filed in public interest by social worker Sunil Kumar Aledia, seeking directions to the police to do away with its practice of waiting 72 hours before conducting autopsies on unidentified bodies. Issuing notices to the police, the city government and the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board, the Bench sought their stand on the plea. The petition has cited recent incidents of two unidentified women’s bodies being found at separate locations and in each case, the police waited 72 hours for the post-mortem.

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