iStock photoThe National Human Rights Commission has awarded a Rs 1-lakh compensation to the family of a road accident victim whose body was carried in a garbage van by police to hospital, where staff wrapped it in a torn cloth. Human rights activist and Supreme Court lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy had complained to the commission about the way the police and staff at the government hospital in Hanagal had treated the body. He said the hospital staff had refused to touch the body unless they were paid and had just wrapped it in a torn piece of cloth, in which he was cremated. After receiving a notice from the commission, the state had admitted to insensitive treatment of the body. The commission observed that prima facie, the administration appeared to have neglected Pothraj’s human rights and ill-treated his body.

Source: The Telegraph May 05, 2019 02:03 UTC