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Kolkata: Cops, locals cremate non-Covid 83-year-old

Kolkata: The natural death of a 83-year-old woman at the B-block of Rabindrapally in Patuli posed a serious challenge for local cops after they got to know that all four family members are Covid and cannot be a part of the cremation.

The family got their physician to issue a death certificate thereby ruling out two options — one, the KMC citing the new SOP and refusing to remove the body as it was a natural death, and two, the morgues refusing to accept body as it was neither an unnatural death nor one where family members were absent.



After the cops were informed, they took up the responsibility of the cremation. Two local youths, who studied under the deceased, also volunteered to help. The body was taken to Garia crematorium. In all this, relatives of the deceased — those living in Kolkata and Canning — refused help citing several reasons.

“On Saturday, around 10 am, we got to know about this case. By then a crucial hour had passed. We got to know that the family comprised four members — her son, daughter in law and their two children. Unfortunately, all are Covid positive. All efforts to take the help of KMC and health department failed since they declined help since the elderly woman was a non-Covid patient,,” said an officer from Patuli police station.

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