Mohana: In a shocking incident, a man was forced to trudge 8 km carrying the decomposed body of his daughter on his shoulder for post-mortem after the police failed to turn up.
This incident was reported from Atankpur village under Rayagada block in Gajapati district Thursday.
In the flood and deluge after the landfall of cyclonic storm Titli, Mukund Dora’s eight-year-old daughter had gone missing since October 11. Later, her decomposed body was found floating in a nullah Thursday.
Though, Mukund had reported the matter to the police, the later allegedly took some photographs of the body in the nullah and failed to initiate subsequent steps to send the body for autopsy.
Left with no option, Mukund packed the body in polythene and carried it on his shoulders to the local hospital for autopsy. Mukund was just a few meters away from the hospital when the police stopped him and took the body in an auto rickshaw.
The police administration drew flak from different quarters for forcing a bereaved father to carry his daughter’s body on his shoulder. Later in the day, Gajapati district administration extended a financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh to Mukund Dora, the father of the deceased girl.
“Though the police were informed about the body, police did not turn up to take the body for post-mortem,” alleged Mukund.
PNN
