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The team had brought modern equipment that would help
determine ante-mortem and post-mortem injuries on the bodies,
officials said.

The bodies of Neelofar and Asiya were recovered from a
stream on May 30 after they went missing in town the previous
evening.

Their deaths had led to 47 days of protests in the town
with locals alleging that security personnel were responsible
for the crime.

Ahead of the exhumation, a doctor, who was part of the
second post-mortem team from neighbouring Pulwama district
hospital and had prepared the vaginal slides of the victims,
had told CBI that no samples from the duo had ever been taken
and the samples for the slides sent to Forensic Laboratory
were taken from gloves used in the gynaecological ward of the
district hospital.

The CBI took over the investigation into the case on
September 17 and a team headed by Deputy Inspector General
Satish Golcha has been camping here since then. The agency's
Special Director S C Sinha had also visited the village
recently and taken stock of the situation.

It had come to light last month that the vaginal swabs of
the two victims sent to Central Forensic and Scientific
Laboratory did not match with that of Neelofar and Aasiya.

Ahead of the CBI probe, state government had appointed
one-man commission headed by Justice (Retd) Muzzafar Jan which
among other things had recommended a detailed questioning of
the relatives of the victims, including Neelofar's husband
Shakeel Ahnger and her brother Zirar Shah. PTI SKL
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