“Looking at the condition of the bodies, I knew recognising and identifying them will be no easy task. So I collected whatever I could and made a list according to the order in which the bodies were placed in the mortuary and wrote against the numbers whatever I found. These I then gave to the policemen,” says Singh.
One of those burnt fountain pens he recovered helps Nabi Mohammed Khan identify his brother-in-law. Among those sifting through the other “recoveries” are relatives of Lalit Arora, one of the three Train Ticket Examiners on the train. Arora, whose wife and three-year-old twins are in Delhi, is untraceable.