THANE: Putting humanity over religion, a group of Muslim youths from Mumbra set an example when they carried out the funeral rites of a 65-year-old neighbour, Waman Kadam, who died on Sunday night in his Almas Colony tenement. Khalil Pawne, Fahad Dabir, Nawaz Dabir, Rahil Dabir, Shaban Khan, Maqsood Khan, Farooque Khan, Mohammad Kasam Shaikh promptly set out to look for a pundit to conduct the funeral rituals and even got a death certificate from a doctor. There were 40-odd Muslim youths in the funeral procession. "As Vitava was worried that the body would start decomposing, she asked the youths to cremate it. The youths returned to the crematorium on Tuesday to collect the ashes to be immersed in the river, as per Hindu rituals.

Source: Times of India September 06, 2016 18:51 UTC