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When we tried to take the body, the hospital refused saying we had another Rs 1.88 lakh pending with them,” he said.A statement from Fortis said: “Fortis Hospital, Noida, strongly denies having refused handover of the patient’s body to the family. But family claimed the hospital refused to hand over the body since they could not deposit “outstanding dues of Rs 1.88 lakh”. “On Sunday, I paid the hospital Rs 2 lakh. This was a medico legal case (MLC) and as per the guidelines we were supposed to hand over the body to police and we acted as per the protocol.” Akash Sharma, Arvind’s nephew, said his uncle had undergone a surgery at the hospital on Friday as a dumper had run over his feet..