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In view of the above, we deem it proper to stay the order of the high court.” He was on a hunger strike since June 22 demanding government measures to save the river.The activist had donated his body to AIIMS for medical research. But Matri Sadan has been asking for the body to hold a prayer ceremony.Hearing a public interest litigation by Vijay Kumar, a pediatrician from Haridwar, the high court on Friday said, “We are of the considered view that the followers are entitled to have the last darshan of the body of Swami Sanand. “We make it clear by way of abundant precaution that no political party shall derive and political mileage on the basis of this order,” the HC said.However, hours later, the Supreme Court stayed the order of the high court.In its order, the apex court said, “The order of the high court, if implemented, will make the organs of the deceased whose body has been embalmed in the AIIMS, Rishikesh, unfit for being transplanted to other human beings. NAINITAL: In a dramatic turn of events on Friday, the Uttarakhand high court directed All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, to hand over the body of Ganga activist and seer GD Agrawal to Matri Sadan in Rishikesh for eight hours for a prayer ceremony and other rituals, an order stayed by the Supreme Court a few hours later.The veteran environmental activist had died of a heart attack at AIIMS in Uttarakhand's Rishikesh, on October 11, 111 days after he began a fast for a pollution-free Ganga..