It seems even the dead can have trouble finding room in this city. Two BMC mortuaries have been closed for over two months as renovation work drags on there, and the project has been delayed further after 110 new stainless steel caskets were found to be too small to hold cadavers and had to be discarded.

The stainless steel caskets were too narrow, and couldn’t accommodate bodies with hefty frames or cadavers swollen from drowning. The handles on them were not placed well, and would have made it impossible for staffers to lift the bodies