The Government of Nepal has issued the Unidentified and Unclaimed Bodies Management (First Amendment) Guidelines, 2083, amending the 2078 guidelines under the authority of the Nepal Police Act, 2012. Among the changes, the amended rules clarify the meaning of body management and require information recorded on the designated portal to be publicised through mass media, strengthening efforts to identify unclaimed or unidentified remains. पहिचान_नभएका_तथा_बेवारिसे_शव_व्…
A major addition concerns people killed in disasters. Under a newly inserted provision, where a body or body part is found following a disaster and preliminary examination establishes that the death resulted from the disaster, only tests necessary for identification need to be conducted. For unidentified or unclaimed remains, samples required for DNA and other identification tests must be collected and preserved before the body or body part is managed. पहिचान_नभएका_तथा_बेवारिसे_शव_व्…
The amendment further requires unidentified bodies or body parts kept for examination to be securely marked so they can later be identified. If identification is subsequently established through such remains, the responsible district authority must hand them over to the concerned family. The revised guidelines also assign immediate management of bodies of disaster victims to the District Disaster Management Committee and update terminology throughout the original guidelines to explicitly cover the management and post-mortem examination of unclaimed bodies.
