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Meerut: Authorities at a post-mortem house here handed over a wrong body to a family, causing major embarrassment for the district administration.On Monday, the authorities handed over the body of a murder victim to the family of an accident victim. Realising the gaffe, the police stopped family members of the accident victim when they were to the cremation ground in Amroha. The police were informed by family members of the murder victim, Rajpal, from Meerut’s Khadkhadi village, who found a different body at the post-mortem house.“It would have been a blunder had the family of the accident victim cremated the body. However, the family was handed over a body of another person, from Amroha, who had been killed in an accident. A blame-game began soon afterwards between the post-mortem house authorities and the police.“The staff at the post-mortem house make family members identify the body before handing it over to them..