Hospital sends dead body to wrong family: Supreme Court moved after NCDRC reduces compensation to deceased person's family

In 2009, the children of one, Puroshothaman were shocked to find that his dead body had already been released by the EMC to another family and that he had been cremated before the hospital realised their error.
Ernakulam Medical Centre
Ernakulam Medical CentreImage courtesy: EMC website
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A dispute over a Kerala-based hospital's gaffe in releasing a dead body to the wrong family, thereby depriving the deceased man's family the opportunity to see him a last time and conduct his final rites, has reached the Supreme Court (PR Jayasree and anr v. Ernakulam Medical Centre and anr).

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