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The issue of decomposed body, allegedly of a Covid-19 patient, being mistreated in West Bengal has brought the ruling Trinamool Congress in the crosshairs of the Opposition and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar.<\/p>\n

Dhankar accused the government of not showing respect to the dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnguished at disposal of dead bodies @MamataOfficial -with heartless indescribable insensitivity. Not sharing videos due to sensitivity. Have sought an URGENT UPDATE @HomeSecretaryWB. In our society dead body is accorded highest respect-rituals r performed as per tradition,\u201d Dhankhar said in one of the tweets on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Anguished at disposal of dead bodies @MamataOfficial<\/a> -with heartless indescribable insensitivity. Not sharing videos due to sensitivity. <\/p>\n

Have sought an URGENT UPDATE @HomeSecretaryWB<\/a><\/p>\n

In our society dead body is accorded highest respect-rituals r performed as per tradition(1\/3)<\/p>\n

\u2014 Governor West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar (@jdhankhar1) June 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also Watch |\u2009Junior doctors protest over inadequate attention to non-Covid patients in WB<\/b><\/p>\n

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The video which surfaced on social media on Thursday showed a morgue employee dragging the body by the neck with tongs at a crematorium in Kolkata. The employee could be further seen putting the body inside a van.<\/p>\n

Local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers made claims before the media that the van carried several decomposed corpses and the stench was unbearable. They also said that they objected to the cremation and made several videos.<\/p>\n

The BJP and Communist Party of India (Marxist) claimed that the corpses could be those of Covid-19 victims. <\/p>\n

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the health department, however, produced records which showed that unclaimed bodies lying at hospital morgues were supposed to be cremated at the Garia crematorium since the Dhapa dumping ground, where such unclaimed bodies are cremated round the year, has been reserved for Hindus dying of Covid-19. An order to this effect was passed by KMC\u2019s chief health officer on May 29. HT has seen the documents.<\/p>\n

But West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh alleged the corpses were of Covid-19 patients. \u201cThe government tried to hide the truth. Apparently, the bodies were burnt with acid,\u201d Ghosh claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to know the identity and addresses of these dead people,\u201d said CPI(M) legislator Sujan Chakraborty. He even wrote a letter to Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim.<\/p>\n

Hakim said that the corpses were unclaimed and had been lying in a government hospital morgue. \u201cThe KMC issued an order on May 29, saying unclaimed bodies would be cremated at the Garia crematorium and the Dhapa crematorium used exclusively for corpses of Hindu victims of Covid-19,\u201d said Hakim.<\/p>\n

Professor Saibal Mukherjee, principal, NRS Medical College and Hospital, wrote a letter to Kolkata Police Commissioner Anuj Sharma on Thursday evening. He said the bodies were related to cases registered in different police stations and none of these people were Covid-19 patients. \u201cThe subject of the video is fake and you may please take necessary action in this regard,\u201d Prof Mukherjee wrote to Sharma.<\/p>\n

The controversy, however, continued on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIssue is not whether the dead bodies were Covid ones! That is matter of probe. Issue-How human bodies can be so shamelessly dragged! Being treated worse than animals. To those engaging in diversion – Search your soul and conscience and imagine dead body was related to you!\u201d Dhankhar tweeted on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

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Issue is not whether the dead bodies were Covid ones ! That is matter of probe. Issue-How human bodies can be so shamelessly dragged ! Being treated worse than animals. <\/p>\n

To those engaging in diversion – Search your soul and conscience and imagine dead body was related to you !<\/p>\n

\u2014 Governor West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar (@jdhankhar1) June 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cResponse @HomeSecretaryWB has come. Virtual admission about callous handling of dead bodies promising procedure will be stream lined. Rather than booking those responsible for such inhuman criminality, police is being misused to \u2018teach a lesson\u2019 to those who exposed it,\u201d the governor said in another tweet.<\/p>\n

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