MEERUT: High-voltage drama was seen in the postmortem house in Baghpat after two bodies got exchanged and one of the bodies was mistakenly cremated by one of the families.The family members of the man who was cremated demanded the body back. Heavy police force has been deployed to defuse the situation.According to police sources, on Sunday, a body was found in Baraut area which was brought to the post mortem house. Later, it was identified as Manoj Tyagi , 46, a resident of Mehmudpur village in Dhampur town of Bijnor. On Tuesday, another body was brought in.This was of Ashok Kumar , 29, who had met with an accident and was resident of Bhabisa village in Shamli . On Wednesday, Tyagi’s relatives came first but the staff at the post mortem house handed over the body of Ashok who took it away and cremated it in Dhampur.When Ashok’s family came to know about the goof-up they sat on a protest and even turned violent jostling with the staff so much so that police had to be called in.According to Krishanpal, Ashok’s brother-in-law, “This is a gross negligence on the part of police and hospital staff. They have become so heartless that they don’t even care about the pain one has to go through in such situations. We want the body back come what may.”Dilip Singh, circle officer of Baghpat, said, “An inquiry has been set up in the incident. So far, it has come to light that Tyagi’s relatives had identified the body but during wrapping up of the same, cleaning staff made the goof-up. To make matters worse, Tyagi’s body had been cremated by the time his relatives were contacted in Dhampur.”Later, Tyagi’s family again reached the post mortem house to fetch the original body. Ashutosh Tyagi, deceased’s relative, said, “We were informed about our uncle, Manoj’s death three days ago and the body was already in a bad shape. After identification was complete and body was handed over to us we simply took it directly to the cremation site for the last rites after reaching our village in Dhampur. We got a call from police when it was already engulfed in flames. Now, we are rushing back to Baghpat again to bring the right body.”SP Baghpat, Shailesh Kumar Pandey said, “This is a strange case. The bodies were in different drawers one above the other and goof up seems to have happened during delivery. That the body was consigned to flames without performing last rites is surprising. Ashok’s family will be handed over the ashes by Tyagi’s family and an inquiry has been set up.”

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