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Man in Assam shunned over inter-caste marriage

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Guwahati, Aug 13: The buried body of a villager was exhumed and cremated as per Hindu rituals by the authorities in Assam's Darrang district as locals refused to help his family with cremation due to social ostracisation owing to his inter-caste marriage 27 years ago, news agency PTI reported.

Atul Sarma, a man residing at Patolsingpara area in Darrang, died on Tuesday but the villagers refused to help in the last rites, his wife claimed.

Man in Assam shunned over inter-caste marriage

"The villagers told us to complete the last rites ourselves. One of my husband's brothers came forward and as he was alone, he could manage to only bury the body and not cremate it," she said.

The couple's son, who was away, could not return before his father's body was buried on Tuesday.

The son later claimed that his parents had been socially ostracised ever since their marriage about 27 years ago as his mother belonged to a 'lower caste'.

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As the news of the incident spread, local civil and police administration officials reached the village on Friday and with consent from the family, arranged for exhuming the body.

"The body was exhumed in the presence of a magistrate. After completing legal formalities, the cremation was arranged by us," a police official said.

Following the post-mortem examination of the body, it was consigned to flames by Atul Sarma's son on Friday evening.

Representatives of the Koch-Rajbonshi community, to which Atul Sarma's wife belonged, visited the family and demanded action against the villagers who had ostracised the family.

A senior police official said no case has been registered yet, though one person has been detained for questioning.

"We are looking into the matter," he said.

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