Gulf ship accident victim's body to arrive tomorrow

New Delhi, Aug 14 (UNI) The deceased Indian youth's parents, who had been doubly shocked to find that they had been sent the body of a wrong person by the company on whose ship he had died, will finally have the body of their son tomorrow.

The youth, Subodh Kant Tiwari, had died in an accident on board the ship of a Gulf company Al Hameed, 500 km away from Tehran, on July 21.

Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed told the Rajya Sabha today that Subodh's body had been dispatched today from Tehran and it will be arriving in the country tomorrow.

The Government has been told that the mix-up had taken place in hospital, Mr Ahmad said responding to the BJP Member from Uttar Pradesh Kalraj Misra, who had raised the issue during Zero Hour.

The deceased, belonging to Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh, was an employee of a company al Hameed. His father Narsingh Tewari was shocked to find that the body sent to them as that of their son's was in fact that of a woman named Fatima.

Mr Ahamed said it was discovered in Varanasi that the body was not that of Mr Tiwari's son.

The woman's body is being sent back to Iran now.

The India Embassy in Iran had taken up the matter with the company and it was trying for a compensation to the parents of the deceased, said Mr Ahamed.

The members demanded that the government come out with clear-cut guidelines relating to the security of Indian nationals working abroad, to which the Minister said such guidelines and laws were already in place and invoked when the situation demanded.

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