Chennai, May 15 -- The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Thursday ordered a re-postmortem on the body of a man, who allegedly died under suspicious circumstances in Saudi Arabia.

The court was hearing a petition filed by Ramani, a resident of Kanyakumari district, who sought a re-postmortem on her husband's body based on a report released by a forensic agency in Saudi Arabia.

According to the reports by The Hindu, the petitioner stated that her husband George Ponnaiyan had gone to Saudi Arabia in 2019 for work. In October 2020, a co-worker of her husband called and told her that Ponnaiyan had died after being attacked by a Christopher Raj in a quarrel over salary.

The petitioner presented a representation to the ministry of ext...