The bodies of Munawar Hasan’s wife Sonia and daughters were on Monday exhumed from the site in Meerut’s Akhtiyarpur, where they were murdered and buried over a month ago.
A Delhi Police team reached the spot in the morning with the arrested men: Bunty, Deepak, Feroze and Zulfikaar, and started the exhumation process.
Process videographed
The process was also videographed. “With this, we have recovered all five bodies,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Jatin Narwal.
The victims: Sonia, Arshi and Arzoo, were shot dead on April 20. A foul smell filled the area after the bodies were dug up because, unlike the murders in Burari where salt and perfume were used on the bodies of Sonia’s son’s — Akib and Sakib — who were also killed by Bunty and others, no such precaution was taken in Meerut.
The police said that DNA samples of Hasan’s four children would be preserved and later matched with Hasan’s body for identification.
The wife’s DNA samples have also been preserved and will be matched with her maternal family. The police have requested for medical boards to conduct the post mortem of the bodies.
The body of Hasan, who was killed on Saturday, was handed over to his kin after the post mortem on Tuesday at the Sabzi Mandi mortuary and his last rites are expected to be performed in his native village in U.P.
Police said they suspected Bunty’s role because when he first visited the police station with Hasan two days before he murdered him he had said that he was always with Hasan.
But on the day Hasan was killed, this was not the case.
On being interrogated, he confessed to the murders of the six-member family.
