Gujjar agitators, holding bodies of 12 victims killed in police firing 10 days back, agreed to allow postmortem on them by a team of doctors in which two will be nominated by the community.Gujjar protesters, led by 70-year-old Kirori Singh Bainsla, decided that the postmortem will be conducted on the bodies as per the conditions laid down by them in a two-page letter to the state administration.Two of the doctors in the team, which will carry out the postmortem on the bodies which are said to have wilting, will be of the choice of the Gujjar clan here, Bainsla, a retired army colonel, said.The bodies are being kept in metal trunks with ice slabs.Bainsla, who has been camping here since the agitation started on May 23, asked his supporters not to desert the area while warning that if they did so, then security forces could take action.Announcing the community's decision to allow the post-mortem, he said "anything can happen at night if your (supporters) number decline.Police will capture the area".Addressing his supporters through a public address system, he asked them to arrange for tarpaulin sheets and torches for them to remain at the agitation site at night.The Gujjar leadership agreed to the post-mortem by a team of doctors in the state after the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) expressed its inability to conduct the autopsy.
