When city police dug out 'wrong' body to right it

AHMEDABAD: After the initial shock over Nisar Ahmed Ansari 'walking out of the grave', officials of the Gomatipur police station exhumed the body which had been buried assuming it was Nisar Ahmed.
This body will now go back to the civil hospital morgue and its true identity will be established before it is given another decent burial. It all began on June 16 when a man found dead from outside civil hospital was identified as the 45-year-old mentally unstable Nisar Ahmed Ansari who had gone missing since March, by his family members.
He was buried after the formalities, in Chartoda kabrastan.His brother-in-law Mohammad Shaikh could not believe his eyes when he suddenly spotted him near Chandola Lake on Friday. When he was brought to Kasai ni chali on Friday, people who had participated in his last rites just five days back, were shocked.
Rumours spread about how he had "risen from the dead" because he looked muddy and unkempt. But the story did not end there. The task for the Gomtipur police station was to establish the identity of the other man.
This body was exhumed from Chartoda kabrastan on Saturday afternoon in presence of Gomtipur police inspector AU Jadeja, executive magistrate JA Patel and two senior doctors of Civil Hospital. The body was then sent to Civil Hospital for post-mortem and further investigations.
"It is a procedure that we have to follow when such a case surfaces. In this case, the last rites were not done mala fide but there is a possibility of cheating or revenge that triggers such incidents. Thus, we had to ensure the truth about the deceased's death. The post-mortem confirmed he was a Muslim and it was a natural death," said Jadeja.