Mumbai Police have taken note of this paper’s report on 129 rotting bodies raising a stink at the four state-run mortuaries in the city. Thirty-one of the corpses, which had been lying in the centres for anywhere between 30 days and 10 months, were cleared in four days.

16 bodies from Bhagwati post-mortem centre have been taken care of; the facility had a backlog of 54 bodies, the maximum among all four state-run facilities in the city. File pic