According to a top medical officer in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur district, authorities have arrested a relative of a coronavirus disease (Covid-19) sufferer who threw his corpse in a river after he died earlier this week. After a video of the body being tossed into the river surfaced, they launched an inquiry.
Dr. Vijay Bahadur Singh, the chief medical officer (CMO), stated that after the video went viral, they discovered through their investigation that Premnath Mishra, a resident of Sidharthnagar, was brought to a hospital on May 25 and died on May 28.
“The body was handed over to his relatives following all Covid protocols and his relatives took it at the crematorium. Prima facie, according to the video, it seems that the body was thrown into the river by his relatives,” Singh said in a video tweeted by Balrampur Police.
Singh went on to say that a complaint has been filed and that action is being taken against the individuals seen in the video, which has gone viral on social media. Two guys carrying the body in the rain are shown in the now-viral video, which was filmed by passers-by in a car. In the 45-second video, the guys, one of them is wearing a PPE suit, are seen dragging the body onto the brink of the Rapti River bridge.
On May 28, persons driving by the location in Balrampur district shot the occurrence.
Two guys, one of them is wearing a PPE suit, are shown on clip carrying a body off the Rapti River bridge. The man in the PPE suit can be seen fiddling with the body, most likely attempting to remove it from the corpse bag.
Hundreds of dead washed ashore on the banks of the Ganga earlier this month in portions of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. 71 corpses were recovered from the riverside in Buxar district.
Thousands of more dead have been discovered buried in Ganga’s sandbanks, which local officials believe were washed up by the high tide.
