In a bizarre incident, officials of the Shatabdi Municipal Hospital, Kandivli (West), took over four months to send an unidentified body lying in the morgue for an autopsy examination.

Sources from the hospital claimed that the 70-year-old patient was admitted to the male medical ward by a social worker from Nallasopara on October 25, 2014. However, the man’s condition deteriorated and he died of various complications on October 28. Later, his body was shifted to the morgue located on the hospital premises.