Gujarat: Recovered from canal, decomposed body taken to hospital in garbage van; video goes viral
Mehsana (Guj), Dec 31: A video has gone viral showing a garbage collection van of a municipality in Gujarat's Mehsana district transporting a body to a local hospital for post-mortem.
After people raised objections, officials of the Kadi Municipality said the decision to send a garbage van to transport the body was taken by lower rank employees because the municipality does not have any mortuary van at present.
The incident occurred on December 29 after the body was recovered from a canal outside the city limits and since it was highly decomposed, nobody was ready to take it to the hospital, they said.
In the brief video shot at night by a person travelling in another vehicle, a garbage collection van of Kadi Municipality can be seen transporting the body from a place near Narmada canal to the Community Health Centre near Kadi town.
Chief Officer of Kadi Municipality, Sandip Patel, said the incident took place on Sunday night outside the limits of the civic body.
"Police recovered a decomposed dead body from Narmada canal passing from a village situated outside the limits of our civic body on December 29. When police officials asked our staff to send a mortuary van to help them in sending the body till CHC for post mortem, our staff told police that the van has recently been scrapped due to RTO rules," he said.
"But since the body was badly decomposed, no other vehicle owner expressed willingness to do the work. Thus, after repeated requests from the police to arrange any other vehicle to do the task, our lower rank staff, without asking senior officials, sent a garbage van. The van was totally empty and did not have any garbage in it," the officer said.
The municipality has already started the process to buy a new mortuary van, he said.
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Ex-Army officer assaulted, robbed at gunpoint by woman he met through matrimonial website
Mathura(UP), Apr 5 (PTI): A retired Army colonel from Haryana has filed a police complaint here, alleging that he was held hostage, assaulted, looted and forced to participate in an "obscene video" at gunpoint with a woman he met through a matrimonial website, police said on Saturday.
The woman from Mathura, who was allegedly in on the plan to rob him, was working with other accomplices, the ex-armyman said in his complaint filed on Thursday.
According to Barsana Station House Officer (SHO) Raj Kamal Singh, Colonel Rajneesh Soni (retired), a resident of Gurugram, reported that he was contacted by a woman from Barsana on a matrimonial website in January. The woman allegedly agreed to marry him, and they began communicating.
The woman allegedly persuaded the colonel to visit Barsana on January 25, requesting that he visit the Radharani temple. When he arrived, she arranged for his stay at a guest house and took him on a tour of the area, including a visit to the temple, the complainant said.
After returning to the guest house, the woman and her accomplices allegedly told the colonel that her brother had been involved in an accident and they needed to leave immediately. They then led him to a waiting car.
"Once outside the town limits, the colonel alleges that he was attacked by the occupants of the car. They seized his phone, physically assaulted him, and forced him to contact relatives and friends to transfer money," the SHO said.
"He was then taken back to the guest house, where he was allegedly forced to participate in obscene videos and photographs at gunpoint. He was threatened that the videos would be made public if he reported the incident," the officer said.
The colonel has alleged that his purse, bag, gold chain, debit card and Rs. 12,000 in cash were stolen from the guest house.
After an unsuccessful attempt at locating the perpetrators himself, the colonel finally reported the incident to the Barsana police two days ago, he said.
"A case has been registered under relevant sections of the BNS and all facts are being investigated. Further action will be taken as per facts found in the investigation," the SHO said.
