Anguished family of missing travel agent furious with police for burying body without mandatory seven-day wait
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Bodies of 26/11 terrorists preserved, why not my bro's?
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Anguished family of missing travel agent furious with police for burying body without mandatory seven-day wait
"If the Mumbai police can preserve the bodies of Ajmal Qasab's friends for months, why couldn't they do the same to my brother's body for even a day?" Vijay Puradkar (45) is so angry that he can barely control his words.
Meanwhile, the Kasara police found Ganesh's body near Kasara on September 1 and buried it the same day.
But the family came to know about the incident on September 7 only after reading an advertisement that the police had put out on an abandoned body.
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"Why couldn't they keep the body in a mortuary?" asked Vijay.
Badly decomposed
But the police say the body was so decomposed that it had to be buried.
"We had to dispose Ganesh's body because it was stinking terribly and badly decomposed.
Even the local hospital refused to accept it," said Vilas Sonde, senior inspector of Kasara police station.
The body was buried so that it could be exhumed in case another post mortem was required or if the family was found.
Chandrakant Pavaskar, additional superintendent of police, Thane (rural), added, "We will exhume the body and give it to the family for the last rites."
Rules Say
When an abandoned body is found, the state control room is contacted.
They then pass on the message to police stations who check of missing persons complaints.
The police have to keep the body for seven days and if nobody comes forward to claim it, the body is cremated or buried.
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