Overview

• The Special Investigation Team filed additional Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections in the same FIR, including Sections 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 236, 240, 248 and 336.
• Police allege the skull was not exhumed by the complainant and was handed to him by another person, and they are examining whether it originated from a laboratory or another source.
• The complainant, a former sanitation worker who received whistleblower protection in July, was arrested days earlier on allegations of perjury.
• Across 17 excavation sites identified by the complainant, investigators recovered partial skeletal remains of one male, with other leads and case files still under review.
• Officials say the original inquiry into alleged clandestine burials and related missing‑person and unnatural‑death reports remains active under the SIT led by DGP Pronab Mohanty.