Lucknow, May 3 -- |
In a damning accusation, Samajwadi Party president and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav alleged that the police were disposing of the bodies of COVID-19 patients without informing their kin in a systematic attempt to conceal the actual number of deaths due to coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh.
"The actual number of coronavirus cases is being concealed. I have definite inputs that police and officials are disposing of bodies of COVID-19 patients so that there is no spike in number. This has happened in Agra and Kanpur where the police disposed of bodies and later told their kin that the deceased were cremated," Akhilesh Yadav told this reporter in Lucknow on Saturday.
The SP chief said that this was being done with a sy...