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Delhi High Court Friday directed all hospitals under the central and Delhi governments to videograph post-mortems of all persons killed in Northeast Delhi. The death toll from the riots stands at 53, with over 300 injured.

A bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice I S Mehta also directed all hospitals to collect and preserve DNA samples of the dead. The bench further directed government hospitals not to dispose of any unidentified bodies till the next date of hearing,