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Without Notification, Police Sells off Corpse to Medical College, Minister Vows Action

Rajasthan Home Minister Shanti Kumar Dhariwal has assured state assembly of action on the complaint lodged by a man whose 19-year-old son died in 2009 in a hospital and his dead body was sold by Ganganagar police to a medical college, said media reports.

Rajkumar Soni filed an RTI and what came out could be a large racked of selling unidentified corpse, run by state police personnel, reports said.

Father of the 19-year-old deceased Rahul, Sonia moved from police stations to cremation grounds till he discovered that the Ganganagar police allegedly sold off his son’s body to Tantia Medical College, said reports.

Then, he filed an FIR against Superintendant of Police and co-administrator of the medical college, reports said.

Rahul was found wounded in a park in Ganganagar on May 25, 2009 and died in a hospital following day.

The police sold off the body to a local private college for research the same day, even without notifying in any newspapers or making any other efforts to identify the body as per law.

“When I went to the emergency ward I got to know that there was a young boy admitted on the 25th and had died on the 26th. He was there after cremated. The authorities there showed me some of his belongings from which I identified he was my son,” Soni was quoted as saying.

“The MLA asked the authorities to take us to the place where his body was cremated to carry out his last rites. That is when they admitted that the body was sent off to the Tamtia Medical College in Ganganagar,” he was quoted as saying.

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