Balasore, Aug. 18 -- The bodies of two deceased persons from different states were mistakenly swapped, causing serious inconvenience and emotional distress to their families, leading to a delay in the last rites.
According to reports, the remains of Rakesh Shaw, a resident of Mulising village under Soro Block in Odisha, and Raju Adhikari, a resident of Siliguri in West Bengal, were dispatched in separate coffins from a hospital in Bengaluru.
The coffins, each bearing the names of the deceased, were flown on the same flight from Bengaluru to Bhubaneswar.
Shaw's family collected the coffin from the airport and brought it to their native village for the funeral. However, to their shock, upon opening the coffin, they discovered the body of a...