Lalitpur, 10 barsa agi mariyeka 5 yuwa ko abasesh hastantran, sab utkhanan pratibedan Sarbajanik. July 23, The skeletal remains of five youths, who were murdered after arrest from Janakpur Municipality-4 in Dhanusha by the security personnel on October 7, 2003, have been handed over to their families on July 23. The remains were kept in the morgue at TU Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu since four years. The remains of five youths were exhumed from the banks of Kamala River and sent to Finland for the DNA test. According to acting secretary Bed Prasad Bhattarai of NHRC, the remains were handed over to the families for the final rites by police in the presence of NHRC after the DNA test confirmed that the remains were of the youths. The result of DNA test had arrived only a month ago. Helsinki University of Finland had sent the DNA report after performing test on skeletal remains of the youths and blood sample of their parents. Forensic tests of the remains were conducted at the TU Teaching Hospital. Exhumation of the bodies had taken place in September 2010. Organizing a press meet at Janakpur, Acting Secretary of NHRC Bhattarai said that the remains were handed over to their families to perform their final rites according to their tradition. The NHRC said that a complaint on disappearance of five youths Sanjeev Kumar Karna, 24, of Janakpur Municipality-10, Durgesh Lal, 23, Jitenndra Jha, 21, Pramod Narayan Mandal, 17, of Kurtha VDC-1 and Shailesh Yadav, 17, of Duhabi VDC-7 after arrest on October 8, 2003 was registered at the Commission. Issuing a brief exhumation report on July 23, NHRC said that the finding of bullets and bullet casing at the exhumation site confirmed that the youths were buried after being shot dead. "The human remains of four including skulls were found to be blindfolded which confirms that they were killed intentionally. Under international human rights law, this falls under crime against humanity," the report states. Tests of the bullet casing proved that SLR was used in the incident, according to the report. "The then Royal Nepali Army was directly involved in the incident as such weapon was only used by RNA during that time of the armed conflict," NHRC concluded. The NHRC has demanded immediate actions against the perpetrators saying that the facts had further established the facts as recommended by the NHRC on January 29, 2008 before the exhumation of the bodies.