Ahmedabad/Rajkot: In a bizarre incident, a farm owner faces a legal action for allegedly burying the body of a labourer who died of electrocution in Kandhigam village of Una taluka in Gir Somnath district. The body was exhumed by police on Sunday.According to the details of the incident, Babu Dabhi (42) was electrocuted after he came in contact with a live wire used as electric fencing to ward off animals at the farm owned by Dahya Anantala on Friday.“When Anantala found Dabhi lying dead, he decided to hide it from police and buried the body at his farm. Meanwhile, worried about his absence, Dabhi’s family members started searching for him and contacted the village sarpanch who approached us. When we went to the farm and started searching, we found Dabhi’s body buried. It was clumsily buried as its both hands were sticking out of the ground,” said an official from Una police station.Meanwhile, the police have detained Anantala and sent Dabhi’s body for postmortem. “Once the postmortem is conducted and the cause of death is established, we will decide what action to take against Anantala. The possibility of a foul play is also not being ruled out,” added the official.

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