The Supreme Court today asked the Government to explore the possibility of empowering the magisterial courts to order DNA profiling of unidentified bodies. This could be effectively used for detecting the family members of such persons. A Bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia said it cannot give any direction but would ask the government to consider issuing circular to state governments in this regard. The court asked the Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra to file an affidavit whether a circular can be issued in this regard and inform it within four weeks. The court was hearing a petition filed in 2009 seeking a direction to the government for making DNA profiling of unidentified bodies mandatory. A PIL filed by a Haryana-based doctor Shamsher Malik pointed out that over 37,000 people die without their identity ever being found out and the methods and procedures adopted for their identification becomes a futile exercise, leaving their kin in darkness about them.