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Woman brings brother's body tied to taxi roof
The New Indian Express Mangaluru
|December 08, 2024
UNABLE to afford the exorbitant fee charged by the ambulance service, a woman was forced to travel 195 kilometers from her village to Haldwani by tying the body of her brother, who died by suicide, to the roof of a taxi.
According to sources, after the post-mortem, the ambulance service demanded ₹12,000 to transport the body from Haldwani's mortuary to their hometown of Berinag. Shivani could not afford it, and her requests for assistance went unheard. Ultimately, she had no choice but to tie her brother's body to the roof of a taxi for the journey h
This story is from the December 08, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express Mangaluru.
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