Jaipur: A silly mistake by a courier company has left the family members of a deceased shocked as they received an unidentified body in the coffin while waiting to perform the last rites for their deceased family member.
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Seetaram Purohit, a resident of Shri Dungargarh in Bikaner, passed away after suffering a heart attack in Mumbai on Wednesday. His family members travelled to Bikaner in a plane along with his body, which had been packed in a coffin by a courier company, people with knowledge of the incident said.
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On arriving back home on Thursday morning, the family was shocked to see an unknown body, and contacted the courier which had booked the coffin on the flight.
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Accepting their fault, the company said that the body, which had got exchanged with that of late Prakash Kumar (35), a resident of Odisha’s Jajpur district, had arrived in Bhubaneshwar and they promised to restitute Purohit’s body soon.
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Kumar’s body was sent to Bhubaneshwar on Thursday afternoon, while Purohit’s body was delivered in Jaipur, from where it was shifted to Shri Dungargarh in an ambulance.
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Purohit’s last rites were performed on Friday.
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