{"id":1686,"date":"2020-06-21T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T13:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2020-06-21T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T13:52:50","slug":"west-bengal-dhankhar-again-demands-details-of-dead-bodies-being-dragged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal: Dhankhar again demands details of \u2018dead bodies being dragged\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"full-details\">\n<div class=\"editor\" id=\"storycenterbyline\">By: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/agency\/express-news-service\/\">Express News Service<\/a> | Kolkata |<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2020-06-20T06:42:17+05:30\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPublished: June 20, 2020  6:42:17 am\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2019\/11\/dhankar-759-1.jpg?w=759\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"759\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"422\"\/><\/span><span class=\"custom-caption\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6143216\" alt=\"west bengal governor jagdeep singh dhankar, jadavpur university violence, pm narendra modi, jnu violence, indian express\" src=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2019\/11\/Dhankar-759-2.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2019\/11\/Dhankar-759-2.jpg 759w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2019\/11\/Dhankar-759-2.jpg?resize=450,250 450w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2019\/11\/Dhankar-759-2.jpg?resize=600,334 600w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2019\/11\/Dhankar-759-2.jpg?resize=728,405 728w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2019\/11\/Dhankar-759-2.jpg?resize=150,83 150w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6143216\" src=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2019\/11\/Dhankar-759-2.jpg\" alt=\"west bengal governor jagdeep singh dhankar, jadavpur university violence, pm narendra modi, jnu violence, indian express\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2019\/11\/Dhankar-759-2.jpg 759w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2019\/11\/Dhankar-759-2.jpg?resize=450,250 450w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2019\/11\/Dhankar-759-2.jpg?resize=600,334 600w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2019\/11\/Dhankar-759-2.jpg?resize=728,405 728w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2019\/11\/Dhankar-759-2.jpg?resize=150,83 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\"\/><\/noscript> Governor Jadeep Dhankhar ( Express photo by Partha Paul).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a letter written to Chief Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/about\/mamata-banerjee\">Mamata Banerjee<\/a> on Friday, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar once again sought details over a video showing fourteen dead bodies being dragged to a city crematorium with a pair of tongs.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote that there is no information from the state administration and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Chairperson Firhad Hakim on the decomposed bodies which were seen in the viral video.<\/p>\n<p>The state government and the KMC had denied the allegations of the bodies belonging to <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/about\/coronavirus\/\">Covid-19<\/a> patients and said these were unclaimed bodies. The KMC ordered a probe into the matter since the Governor was not satisfied with the reply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unfortunate diversionary tactics that the 14 dead bodies were not Covid-afflicted is inconsequential, though probe on that is surely called for. The core issue agitating people\u2019s minds is \u2014 how can a civilisation be so tainted and humanity shamed by callous treatment to the dead bodies! Every provision of the KMC Act has been violated. You are well aware about the sanctity we attach to cremation of dead bodies, the rituals performed,\u201d said the Governor in his letter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"appstext\"><strong>\ud83d\udce3 <em>The Indian Express is now on Telegram. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/indianexpress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here to join our channel (@indianexpress)<\/a> and stay updated with the latest headlines<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"appstext\">For all the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/section\/cities\/kolkata\/\">Kolkata News<\/a>, download <a class=\"click-event\" id=\"IE_app_download\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.page.link\/aeiu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indian Express App.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 The Indian Express (P) Ltd<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/kolkata\/west-bengal-dhankhar-again-demands-details-of-dead-bodies-being-dragged-6467376\/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Express News Service | Kolkata | Published: June 20, 2020 6:42:17 am Governor Jadeep Dhankhar ( Express photo by Partha Paul). In a letter written to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar once again sought details over a video showing fourteen dead bodies being dragged to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dhankar-759-1.jpgw759.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}