Bhubaneswar, Jan. 15: After the tribals of Kalinga Nagar, it is the turn of doctors to voice their grievances over autopsy.

Irked by the allegation of rights organisations that the genitals of six tribals had been mutilated, 13 doctors of the Jajpur district headquarters hospital today decided that they would not lift the scalpel to examine bodies in future.

?We are scared. We are not forensic specialists. So, in the absence of definitive guidelines from the authorities, we would not do autopsies. The government can send the bodies to the three medical colleges where there are forensic specialists,? said Rajkishore Panda, eye specialist at the hospital.

Panda had conducted autopsy on the body of the police havildar who was lynched by the mob during the tribal-police face-off.

The eye doctor and his colleagues today wrote to the chief district medical officer of Jajpur, Chandramani Biswal, to air their views.

But the official claimed that the matter has been sorted out. ?There is no problem now,? he told The Telegraph, dismissing the allegations of mutilation of the slain tribals? genitals during autopsy.

Yesterday, chief minister Naveen Patnaik had requested the State Human Rights Commission to probe into the matter. The move came after National Commission for Scheduled Tribe Chairman Kunwar Singh and Organisation of People?s Democratic Rights claimed to have received allegations in this regard.

Questions, however, are being raised about the rationale behind seeking a probe. ?How would the SHRC substantiate the allegations? The bodies have been cremated and after 10-12 days of the incident this sort of probe is absolutely uncalled for. The relatives of the tribals might say that the genitals were chopped off. But is that enough?? asked A.B. Tripathy, special rapporteur of the National Human Rights Commission.