Cops, residents spar over cremation of accident victim

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Press Trust of India Ambala
Last Updated : Feb 15 2014 | 9:14 PM IST
Tension mounted in the city's Pipli Bazar area after the residents engaged in an altercation with the police over cremation of an accident victim without a post-mortem.
According to police, Kailash Rani was killed in a road accident on Ambala-Chandigarh highway last evening when she was hit by an unidentified vehicle.
She was rushed to the civil hospital where the doctor declared her brought dead. The body was handed over to her relatives.
The relatives of the deceased reached cremation ground this noon, but a police team soon arrived at the spot and stopped them from cremating the body.
Since it was an accident death therefore the body could not be cremated without a post-mortem, police said.
The residents got agitated with this and engaged in a verbal duel with the police.
Following the intervention of the Ambala SDM, the body was cremated without a post-mortem.

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