Hyderabad: The family of a 55-year-old retired RTC driver has alleged that his dead body had been mistakenly given to another family by the Osmania General Hospital mortuary authorities and the police.
The family, meanwhile, has buried the body and the police will exhume it and conduct a DNA test to settle the dispute. Md. Rafiq, a resident of Amberpet, had gone missing from his house 10 days ago and the family had filed a missing person’s complaint at the local police station the next day. On December 4, a dead body was recovered by the Afzalgunj police in the premises of the Osmania General Hospital and they shifted it to mortuary.
The cops put up photographs of the unknown dead person in the station, asking for people to come forward and identify him. Meanwhile, the family of 70-year-old Mohammed Saleem from Kishanbagh approached the local police stating that Saleem had been missing for one-and-a-half months. Saleem’s son Mr Syed Arshad came to know about the unknown dead body on December 7 and claimed the body by submitting photographs and documents proving his identity.
