Deceased body mix up in Karur leads to confusion

Karur: An incident in which the body of a 66-year-old road accident victim was mixed up with another body triggered confusion at the cremation in Karur on Sunday.The deceased was identified as S Anantharaj, a resident of Puttampur Kalipalayam near Manalmedu along the Karur–Madurai highway. He was the district secretary of the Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS) trade union and a member of the Karur district monitoring committee. According to police, Anantharaj sustained severe injuries on March 4 when the moped he was riding was hit by a mini-lorry from behind near Chellandipalayam in Karur district. He was initially admitted to a private hospital in Karur and later shifted to the govt Rajaji hospital (GRH) in Madurai for further treatment.However, he succumbed to his injuries on Sunday. After conducting a postmortem, hospital authorities handed over the body to his relatives. The family brought the body to Puttampur and took it to a crematorium to perform the last rites. However, relatives were shocked to find that the body was not that of Anantharaj. Upon learning that the body had been mixed up with that of another deceased person, the relatives returned the body to the GRH mortuary. After verifying the identity, Anantharaj's body was handed over to the family, and he was cremated on Monday.