Skull exhumed from cremation ground

CBI sleuths today exhumed from an advasi cremation ground at Jamalpur the remains of a person, believed to be an inmate of a welfare home for destitute women which had hit the headlines after the body of a mentally challenged woman was found buried in its premises.

CBI sources said the remains were exhumed from Telkupi ghat and comprised a skull, a number of bones, hair, a quilt, a green bedsheet and parts of a salwar kameez.

Believing that these might have belonged to a woman, the sources said the articles had been sent for forensic tests tomorrow.

Biswanath Murmu, who had been earlier arrested for carrying bodies of women from the home to the cremation ground in his tractor, had confessed that the body exhumed during the day had been brought by him, the sources said.
 

Today's investigation was carried out by an eight-member team headed by CBI deputy superintendent of police P Haldar.

CBI, which had been directed to investigate the matter by Calcutta High Court on February 18 this year following a PIL, had visited the cremation ground on March 3 following confessions of those arrested in connection with the death of the woman at the welfare home situated in nearby Gurap in Hoogly district.