Man was bound to carry COVID positive wife's body on bicycle after villagers refused cremation
But at the end local police helped the man to cremate his wife's body on the outskirt of the village.
● Police said that man in the photo was 70-year-old Tilakdhari, a resident of Amberpur village in Jaunpur — 275 km from state capital Lucknow. His wife had died due to Covid at a government hospital.
● According to police, the hospital had sent her body back to the village in an ambulance, but the villagers did not allow her cremation in the local cremation ground as they said it would ensure the spread of infection in the village.
● Not being able to convince the villagers much, Tilakdhari decided to consign his wife’s body in the nearby Sai river — a not-so-frequent practice in the area. The villagers, however, refused to help move the body.
● Not finding any way out, Tilakdhari decided to carry his wife's body on his bicycle, but halfway through, the 70-year-old could not maintain control over the cycle and he toppled on the ground along with the body of his wife.
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