Wrong labelling of sticker on coffin led to exchange of body 

A Balasore family alleged they received the wrong body of their kin, who died in Bengaluru, due to mislabelling of a coffin. The mix-up was discovered after opening the casket, forcing an ambulance en route to Siliguri to return

Balasore: A family in Odisha’s Balasore district alleged that they received the body of another person instead of a family member who died in Bengaluru due to wrong labelling of sticker on the coffin.

Rakesh Shaw (21), working as a supervisor in a private company in Bengaluru, died of electrocution on August 15. His body, along with another person’s body from Siliguri in West Bengal, was carried in the same ambulance for delivery to their respective families.

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The ambulance handed over the coffin of Rakesh to the family at Mulising village and left for Siliguri on Sunday, they said on Monday.

However, when the coffin delivered to the family member of Mulising village in Soro block was opened, it was found that the body was not that of Rakesh.

Immediately, the company that arranged to dispatch the coffins was contacted, and the ambulance carrying the coffin to Siliguri had to return from the midway and exchange the dead body.

All the mess happened due to the wrong labelling of the sticker on the coffin at the dispatch point, the family members alleged.