The order for exhumation of the body came after the Block Development Officer of Dhaniakhali Biswanath Ghosh filed an FIR at the Gurap police station today, police sources said.
The sources said that the authorities of the home, Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally ill persons (Women), claimed that the 32-year-old woman was killed when a ceiling fan fell on her head on July one.
After obtaining the death certificate the authorities buried the body as per the custom of the private home run by a person named by Uday Chand Kumar, they said.
Villagers, however, alleged that there was foul play behind the death of the woman and informed the police, the sources said.
They questioned that since the woman died an unnatural death why her body was not sent for a post mortem examination.
The villagers gheraoed the home during the day alleging that atrocities were being committed on woman and girl inmates.
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The woman was from Bankura district and had left home on May 22 and her name was not found, police said.She was named Guria at the home.
State Women and Child Development minister Sabitri Mitra said in Kolkata that she had asked the Hooghly district magistrate to inquire into the incident.
Stating that her department was not informed of the incident by the home authorities, Mitra said that the state government would take strong action if necessary.
WBPCC President Pradip Bhattacharya said that a CID probe should be ordered if not a CBI inquiry into the incident.