Click to play videoNew Delhi: A Nithari-like finding in Murshidabad, West Bengal has sent the residents into panic.
Skeletal remains of fully grown people, mostly limbs and ribs and at least 26 skulls, were found at Lalbagh in Murshidabad town during the excavation of a construction site on Wednesday.
The remains were found at a depth of about four feet and more skeletons were emerging as digging work is still on, Superintendent of Police Rahul Srivastava was quoted by PTI as saying.
He added that the excavation was being carried out by a contractor of the jail department to erect a guard wall near a pond of the correctional home in the town.
The remains were sent to Kolkata for forensic and DNA tests.
About 10 days ago nearly 40 human skulls and over 100 skeletons were recovered near a post-mortem house under a police station in Etah district of Uttar Pradesh.
The police denied Etah was another Nithari in the making and blamed the Health Department in the district instead, saying that the bones were dragged outside by stray dogs from the post-mortem house.
The post-mortem house apparently went out of use in the 80's when a new one was constructed next to it. The old one gradually fell into disrepair, with all the doors and windows falling apart.
With no doctors and no security to take care of the building, the skulls were left for animals to feed on, authorities claim.
Nonetheless, residents are a worried lot and hope that the discovery it does not blow up into another Nithari-like incident.
Nithari village, Noida, shot into the limelight in December when skeletal remains of nearly 17 young women and children were recovered from businessman Moninder Singh Pandher's D-5 residence in Sector 31.
It is suspected that he and his man servant, Surendra Koli, sexually abused and murdered the children.
The case since then has taken a horror-filled twists and turns with organ trade, necrophilia and cannibalism all being alleged by first the Noida Police and then the CBI, which took over the case.
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