Woman arrested for posing as derailment victim's sister

A 45-year-old woman was arrested for masquerading as the sister of a man killed in Indore-Patna derailment incident and trying to claim compensation, police said today.
DSP Pavitra Mohan Tripathi said a woman claiming to be Preeti, a resident of Patna, yesterday approached the authorities at Mati postmortem house and identified a body as that of her brother Rahul.
The postmortem of the body was carried out and preparations were being made to hand it over when some doctors became suspicious as she kept asking when she would be recieving the compensation, he said.
The medical staff informed the police who questioned the woman. She kept on giving different addresses to them and was also not able to provide her identity card.

Meanwhile, one Dina Vishwakarma from Chandauli district reached the postmortem house and identified the body as that of his son Rishu (30), he added.
The deceased used to work as a cleaner on contract in trains and was onboard the ill-fated Indore-Patna Express on Sunday. Dina, who reached the hospital after receiving news about the accident, identified Rishu's body and also showed the police his ID card, the police official said.

The woman then identified herself as Aaliya Parveen (45), a resident of Varanasi's Godowlia. She told the police that she hatched this plan after coming to know that the kin of the deceased were being given large compensation.

Police suspect the involvement of some more people as Aaliya had shown authorities fake identity papers of the deceased.
An FIR has been registered against her at Akbarpur Police Station and she is being questioned. Her call records are also being probed, the DSP said.
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Kanpur Zone IG Zaki Ahmed said the six unidentified bodies will be kept in deep freezer for the next seven days and their photographs will be sent to police chiefs of all states through WhatsApp for identification.
144 bodies have been identified so far.
He said according to medical protocol, the last rites of unidentified bodies should be carried out within 72 hours as the corpses begin to decompose.

However, after a meeting with officials it was decided that the bodies kept in Mati hospital in Kanpur (Rural) would be brought to the city and placed in deep freezer in Ursula Hospital and Rama hospital for at least seven days, he added.
Ahmed said the health department has been directed to use special chemicals on the bodies and to maintain the required temperature.
The police chiefs have been asked to circulate the photographs in their states and the district magistrate and superintendent of police of Kanpur (Rural) have been directed to publish the pictures in all prominent newspapers.
Meanwhile, Kanpur Chief Medical Officer Ramayan Prasad said when the body of one of the victims was going to be placed in deep freezer at Mati hospital, it was found that the torso belonged to a man while the legs, which had anklets, were of a woman.

The body has not been unidentified yet. The medical staff is inquiring into the matter, he said.
Yadav said the possessions of the victims retrieved from train wreck have been kept at Hallet hospital. About 125 bags and briefcases had been recovered out of which 25 have been claimed by people.