India, Dec. 2 -- A hospital cleaning staffer at a private medical facility in Delhi allegedly stole gold jewellery off a woman who had passed away moments before.

The woman died at a private nursing home in Krishna Nagar in east Delhi, news agency PTI quoted police as saying. A purported video of the incident being circulated on social media showed the staffer taking off something from the deceased woman's ears.

A complaint was registered after the incident by the deceased woman's son, Naveen Kumar Gupta, a resident of Shahdara. Gupta told police he had rushed his ailing mother to the emergency ward of the Goyal Hospital on November 11.

The doctors had then advised the son to shift his mother to another hospital for treatment, PTI repo...