Rajasthan man believed dead by family comes home after they held funeral

A 40yearold man presumed dead by his family showed up a week after they had performed a funeral mistakenly identifying a decomposed body as his in Rajsamand RajasthanThe incident took place after the staterun RK Hospital declared the body of a man named Goverdhan Prajapat who was under treatment at the hospital as unidentified and later Omkar Lal Gadulias relatives wrongly took possession of that body at Rajsamand district in RajasthanOmkar Gadulia a liquor addict had gone to Udaipur without informing his family on May 11 He was admitted to a hospital owing to some liverrelated problem Omkar Gadulias family was living with his brother after the coronavirusinduced lockdown the police saidOn the same day Goverdhan Prajapat was taken from Mohi area to the RK Hospital by an ambulance service arranged by some public representatives He died during treatment they saidWe had got a letter from the hospital authorities that a body was lying unclaimed at the mortuary for three days We then circulated photographs of the deceased man on various fronts to identify the body Kankroli police station official Yogendra Vyas saidHe said over a dozen people came to the hospital on May 15 to identify the body The police were informed about it and the family members gave in writing to hand over the body to them without conducting any postmortemThe family members wrongly identified the body to be that of Omkar Gadulia going by a similar scar on his right hand and appearance and the police handed over the body without conducting any postmortem and DNA testThe body was identified by the family members DNA testing and postmortem by a medical board is conducted when the body is unidentified following which the body is usually handed over to municipality for cremation Vyas saidThe body was taken away and the funeral performed on May 15However Gadulia returned home on May 23 and was shocked to learn that he was believed deadLater the police launched an investigation and identified the body which Gadulias family had cremated as that of Goverdhan PrajapatPolice were nowhere at fault in this case The body was declared unidentified by the hospital authorities Vyas saidMeanwhile the hospital authorities admitted that the whole incident was a goofup on part of the nursing and mortuary staffThere was a huge patient load The patient was admitted to the hospital through 108 ambulance service The incident took place due to lack of coordination between the nursing and mortuary staff Appropriate action will be taken in the matter Principal Medical Officer of RK Hospital Lalit Purohit saidGoverdhan Prajapat is survived by three children who had been sent to a welfare home after his health deterioratedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever