Click to play videoJaipur: Rajasthan Home Minister Shanti Kumar Dhariwal gave an assurance in the state Assembly on Tuesday that action will be taken on the complaint by a man who lost his 19-year-old son in 2009 and alleged that his dead body was sold by Ganganagar police.
The man, Rajkumar Soni, filed an RTI and exposed what could be a huge racket of selling unidentified bodies, run by personnel belonging to Rajasthan Police.
Soni, father of the deceased, was led on a wild goose chase from police stations to cremation grounds before he found that his son Rahul's body was allegedly sold off to the Tantia Medical College in Ganganagar by the Ganganagar police.
He has filed an FIR against the Superintendent of Police and co-administrator of the medical college.
Soni's son was found injured in a park in Ganganagar on May 25, 2009 and died in a hospital the next day.
The same day the police gave away the body to a local private medical college for research without notifying in any newspapers or making any other efforts to identify the body as per law.
Soni said: "When I went to the emergency ward I got to know that there was a young boy admitted on the 25th and had died on the 26th. He was there after cremated. The authorities there showed me some of his belongings from which I identified he was my son."
"The MLA asked the authorities to take us to the place where his body was cremated to carry out his last rites. That is when they admitted that the body was sent off to the Tamtia Medical College in Ganganagar," he added.
The Ganganagar police are probing irregularities in dealing with unidentified bodies in at least 15 cases.
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