Rajasthan Man Believed Dead By Family Comes Home After They Held Funeral

The police had handed over the body without conducting any post-mortem and DNA test as the family members wrongly identified another body, going by a similar scar on his right hand and appearance.

A 40-year-old man presumed dead by his family showed up a week after they had performed a funeral mistakenly identifying a decomposed body as his in Rajsamand, Rajasthan. The incident took place after the state-run RK Hospital declared the body of a man named Goverdhan Prajapat, who was under treatment at the hospital, as "unidentified" and later Omkar Lal Gadulia's relatives wrongly took possession of that body at Rajsamand district in Rajasthan. Omkar Gadulia, a liquor addict, had gone to Udaipur without informing his family on May 11. He was admitted to a hospital owing to some liver-related problem. Omkar Gadulia's family was living with his brother after the coronavirus-induced lockdown, the police said. On the same day, Goverdhan Prajapat was taken from Mohi area to the RK Hospital by an ambulance service arranged by some public representatives. He died during treatment, they said.