Man's Body Exhumed After Family Allege Organ Theft By Hospital In Odisha

The hospital authority denied the allegation and said their doctors had performed decompressive craniectomy, a neurosurgical procedure.

The hospital authorities had handed over the body to the family members of the deceased without conducting any post-mortem examination and did not inform the local police station in Cuttack about his death, he said.

The family members of the deceased buried his body in a burial ground at Tikarabaju under the Kandhamal district's Baliguda Police Station limits on October 17, the police said.

Baliguda Police Station inspector-in-charge Sushant Sahu said the post-mortem of the body was conducted at a sub-divisional hospital, after being exhumed from the burial ground.