Deceased woman's remains handed over to wrong family by hospital in Kerala
Kottayam (Kerala), Nov 9: When the relatives of 86-year-old Sosamma John, who had died recently, came on Thursday to collect the mortal remains from a private hospital at Kanjirappally here, they were in for the shock of their lives.
Her body had been handed over by mistake to another family the previous day.
John had died on November 6 and her remains were kept in the hospital morgue awaiting the arrival of all her relatives for the funeral.
The same hospital morgue also contained the remains of 80-year-old Kamalakshiamma, a native of Chirakkadavu village here, who had also died on the same day.
When one of Kamalakshiamma's nine sons arrived to collect her body on Wednesday, the remains of John were handed over to him by mistake.
Even the son did not realise that the body he had collected from the hospital was not that of his mother.
"Even at the time of performing the last rites, they did not realise that they had made a mistake," police said.
By the time the blunder was discovered on Thursday morning, John's remains had been cremated.
Subsequently, a tense situation prevailed at the hospital as agitated relatives of John blamed the hospital for the mix-up and senior police officers arrived at the scene to calm them down.
The hospital management apologised to John's family and thereafter, her relatives agreed to bury her ashes.
The ashes were brought back and handed over to John's relatives and the body of Kamalakshiamma was handed over to her relatives.
John's relatives had arrived at the hospital in the morning in an ambulance with a casket to bury her remains, as the funeral was scheduled to be held at 10 am, and that is when the mix-up was discovered.
The hospital claimed that the body was handed over to the other family after they had identified it.
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Rickelton's ton in vain as SRH beat MI by 6 wickets
Mumbai (PTI): Ryan Rickelton's whirlwind unbeaten ton was overshadowed by Heinrich Klaasen's unbeaten 65 as Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets in an IPL match here on Wednesday.
Chasing an imposing 244-run target, Travis Head (76 off 30) and Abhishek Sharma (45 off 24) shared 129 runs for the opening wicket to set the platform for SRH.
Klaasen (65 not out off 30 balls) then displayed his all-round hitting abilities to guide SRH home with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy (21) and Salil Arora (30 not out off 10) in 18.4 overs.
Earlier, Rickelton's knock powered MI to 243 for five.
MI rode on a 93-run stand between Rickelton (123 not out off 55 balls) and Will Jacks (46 off 22) in 7.1 overs for the opening stand to power the side.
MI skipper Hardik Pandya scored a valuable 31 off 15 balls before being dismissed.
Praful Hinge (2/54), Eshan Malinga (1/29), Sakib Hasan (1/39) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (1/31) were the wicket-takers for SRH.
Brief Scores:
Mumbai Indian: 243 for 5 in 20 overs (Ryan Rickelton 123 not out; Praful Hinge 2/54).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 249 for 4 in 18.4 overs (Travis Head 76, Heinrich Klaasen 65 not out; AM Ghazanfar 2/51).
