Bengaluru: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik yesterday described as “distressing” the incident of a tribal man forced to walk 10 km with his wife’s body on his shoulder as he was allegedly denied a hearse and said stringent action would be taken against the guilty.

Naveen Patnaik (left) described as ‘distressing’ the incident (left) wherein Dana Majhi carried his wife’s body upon not getting an ambulance