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Monday, Apr 25, 2005

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Post-mortem row: body left to rot in hospital

Staff Reporter

Kin wants doctors to hand over body as OGH takes cover under medico legal case

HYDERABAD: Two days after death, the body is still lying in the morgue with flies buzzing around it. As controversy over the need for post-mortem on the gold ornaments polisher, Kumara Chary, continued, the body is decomposing.

Unheard of in recent times, a peculiar situation emerged in Osmania General Hospital with doctors registering a medico legal case and victim's family running from pillar to post requesting to hand over the body without autopsy saying it was natural death as he died of paralysis. A resident of Roda Mistry Nagar, Chary was brought to the hospital on April 22 by his wife Shobharani. He died the same night reportedly while undergoing treatment for paralysis. Duty doctors registered it as a medico legal case as Mrs. Shobharani told them that three years ago Chary sustained injuries on his back after accidentally slipping down from a tree.

The controversy began when Mrs. Shobharani insisted her husband's body be handed over without conducting autopsy, as none of her family members firmly believed that there was any foul play in his death.

Police help sought

The woman approached the Jeedimetla police saying the doctors were refusing to hand over the body. The Jeedimetla Inspector, B. Srinivas Reddy, on Sunday wrote a letter to the OGH authorities stating there was no suspicion over the death of Chary and hence the body could be handed over to the relatives without autopsy.

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