The body of a Tamil Nadu agricultural labourer in his sixties was mistaken for the corpse of a worker from Bihar, and it was sent to the northern state in an ambulance by a state-run hospital in nearby Tiruvallur.
When the family of the Tamil farm worker came to the Tiruvallur hospital to take home the body, they were shown a corpse of some other person, which shocked them, and they staged a protest.
Subsequently, Tiruvallur Government Medical College Hospital officials discovered that the Tamil agricultural labourer’s body had been sent to Bihar by mistake.
Also, the Tamil labourer was identified as Rajendran from a village near Tiruttani in Tiruvallur district.
Officials, after discovering the truth, immediately alerted the ambulance driver and directed him to return.
However, by that time, the vehicle had gone about 800 km away from Tiruvallur.
The corpse that the mortuary staff showed to the Tamil farm labourer family was identified as that of a worker, Manoj Manchi (55), from Bihar, who had come last month to Tamil Nadu in search of work.
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