This story is from June 6, 2020

No one came to claim patient’s body: Telangana to high court

Shedding more light on the controversy surrounding a Covid-19 patient from Vanasthalipuram, the government on Friday informed the Telangana high court that the patient had died on May 1 due to Covid-19.
No one came to claim patient’s body: Telangana to high court
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HYDERABAD: Shedding more light on the controversy surrounding a Covid-19 patient from Vanasthalipuram, the government on Friday informed the Telangana high court that the patient had died on May 1 due to Covid-19.
The wife had filed a habeas corpus plea seeking to know the whereabouts of her husband, charging the government with not sharing information on him ever since he was hospitalised.

A bench of Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy told her counsel that the purpose of a habeas plea is to know the status of a person. “Now that we know he is no more, this plea cannot be continued. If she has any grievance against the state government or GHMC at the way the authorities had dealt with the issue, she has other legal remedies,” the bench said.
The bench posted the case to June 9 to know if death certificate and ashes of her husband were handed over to her.
Advocate general BS Prasad said there was no one to claim the body of the petitioner’s husband. “Hence, GHMC and police personnel cremated his body. We informed his wife, but she expressed her inability to collect his body because she was kept in quarantine at that time. We have handed over the death certificate to her,” he added.
However, her counsel refuted the AG’s claims and said that she still believes her husband is alive.
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