The final rites of a COVID-19 patient were considerably delayed after locals protested and resorted to stone pelting and violence to stop the government officials from cremating him, police said on Wednesday. Seventy-one people have been arrested for the violence.
According to a complaint filed by the Chief Officer of the Khambhat Nagarpalika, Jitendra Dabhi, they had reached the Hariom Nagar cremation ground in Vidyanagar town of Anand district around 9 pm on Tuesday to cremate a 63-year-old patient who had succumbed to the virus at the Shri Krishna hospital in Karamsad.
Officials from the district administration said that there was already a long delay in performing the final rites after no member from his family came forward to claim the body. The 63-year-old man who had co-morbid conditions of hypertension died on the night of May 2, officials said.
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