A mistaken body, and a wound that never healed
India, Oct. 29 -- F
our months after the Sarojini Nagar blast, the Yadav family were dealt another blow - the body they had cremated, believing it to be their 20-year-old son Kaushalendra's, wasn't his. DNA reports revealed it belonged to another victim, Salim Ahmad Ansari.
"It still haunts me that we performed the last rites of another man while my brother was buried somewhere else," said Surender Yadav, now 36. "When the DNA report came, we were shattered. Both families went to the authorities, but the police said it was too late. The bodies had been cremated. They said exhuming the remains could cause communal tension."
Surender still trembles recalling those days - going from hospital to mortuary to market, searching for his brother.
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