Wife spends night at crematorium with husband's body after landlord stops her from performing ritual at home

Roorkee: A family from Banaras, Uttar Pradesh, had to spend the entire night at a

crematorium

in

Roorkee

with a corpse as the landlord of their house did not allow them to perform the last rites at the Uttarakhand home before cremation.

Mahender Singh, 55, and his

wife

used to work as a factory labourer near Roorkee and lived in a rental house at Salempur locality. On Tuesday night, Singh was rushed to a city-based hospital after a chest pain. He succumbed.

Though, his landlord took him to the hospital for treatment, after his death he refused to bring back the body home. Mahender's wife with the help of a few locals then took the body to Solani-Nadi crematorium and kept waiting the whole night for her relatives. On arrival of her relatives, on Thursday morning, she left for Haridwar in an ambulance for cremation.

"We took the body of Mahender Singh from hospital to a local crematorium on Wednesday when the landlord refused to entertain them, giving Covid pandemic as an excuse," Sanjeev Rai, a councillor at Roorkee Municipal Corporation, said.


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