Body of Indian worker lies in hospital mortuary for 3 years

Dubai, Jan 9 (UNI) The body of Dandapani Govindan from Tamil Nadu, lying in a hospital mortuary in Bahrain for the past three years, is awaiting its final journey.

The free visa worker had died of medical complications in a hospital in March 2004, and his the body is still kept there since then.

His relatives back home, who alleged that Govindan was murdered and refused to give permission to cremate the body by the hospital, were finally traced as they had shifted their home.

A local Indian charity, which traced them, said it is still awaiting a letter of consent from the widow to cremate the body.

Indian Community Relief Fund general secretary C R Nambiar told Bahrain Tribune that it would act according to the demand of the family.

UNI