‘Allow UIDAI data to identify bodies’

SHIMLA Himachal Pradesh DGP Sanjay Kundu has requested the Unique Identification Authority of India to allow the use of their database to help identity unidentified and unclaimed bodies, officials said on Tuesday. It would not breach any living person's privacy, but help identify bodies so as to hand them over to the next of kin for per forming the cremation or burial per the religious beliefs of the deceased, Kundu said.