Maharashtra: Body goes missing from Vashi hospital

The Senior Inspector of the Vashi police station Sanjeev Dhumal told that the police have received a complaint from the relatives of the deceased and also the hospital authorities about the body going missing from the mortuary.

We are probing into the case and the details will be clear only after the probe, he said.

The body of the 29-year-old was handed over to the NMMC hospital on May 8, for the checking of COVID-19 and at that time the relatives were asked to return after four days for the body.

It was after four days the hospital called up the relatives and informed them that, the deceased was found to be negative and asked them to take the body.

When asked for the body the authorities could not not hand over the body as the body was not not in the mortuary.

The relative of the deceased told the media that the hospital authorities were not not entertaining him and attending to his complaint nor nor they were handing over the body to him for the final rights.

The police suspect that there is a mixup of the bodies as there is a big crowd of bodies at the mortuary due to the Pandemic and large scale deaths in Navi Mumbai.

Meanwhile in a related development in Thane city, the Youth Congress leader Pravin Khairalia has drawn the attention of the Thane Municipal Commissioner Vivek Singhal and the Mayor Naresh Mhaske to the fact that a number of bodies are being presently burnt in the Jawharb Baugh crematorium which includes that of the COVID19 patients too.

This emits a lot of smoke in the residential region affecting the people's day in and out. Hence, he urged them to go in for a technical disposal of the smoke so that it does not not affect the health of those residing nearby.