Court Asks Centre To Expedite Repatriation Of Remains Of Indian Buried In Saudi Arabia

The Indian Consulate should find other ways by which the man's family can approach any other authority or legal remedy which can be helpful to bring back the remains, the Delhi High Court said.

The Delhi High Court has said that the family of a Hindu Indian man, who was buried in Saudi Arabia as per Muslim rites, cannot wait endlessly to bring back his remains and asked the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to look for alternate legal remedies available with them in the foreign land. Justice Prathiba M Singh said that while continuing to follow up with the Saudi Arabia officials, the Indian Consulate should also find other ways by which the man's family can approach any other authority or legal remedy which can be helpful to bring back the remains. "The family cannot wait for this endlessly. You (MEA) have to find out some other remedy available to them. There has to be some higher pressure on them. It is not helping. It cannot go on like this," the high court said. It was hearing a case in which the remains of the Hindu man were wrongly buried in Saudi Arabia as per Muslim rites due to incorrect translation of his religion on the death certificate purportedly by Indian Consulate officials in Jeddah.