Though the regulations don't allow testing a deceased for COVID-19, samples were collected from a body of a 27-year-old murder victim at Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar earlier this week even after his family insisted that he had no symptoms. Apart from the trauma of losing a loved one, the victim's relatives said they waited for the test results for five days when the reports came back positive. However, their ordeal didn't end there, they have still not been able to perform the last rites as the body is now missing.

According to the relatives of the victim, Jamal (name changed), and the Deonar police, he was allegedly stabbed by his brother after a family squabble at Baiganwadi on June 2 evening. "A group of people beat him up badly and he was stabbed. Before that he was perfectly healthy and had no symptoms of COVID-19 either. He died on the way to the hospital. Since then, we have been waiting for them to hand over the body to us. We have made all the arrangements for his last rites and we have been making at least one trip to the hospital every day," said his cousin, Ali (name changed). The victim is survived by his wife and seven-year-old son.