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On February 25, doctors at the Sharda Hospital in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh pronounced Rachna Sisodia, 24, dead following complications with her lungs.
Citing hospital sources, the Times of India, report how Sisodia was declared clinically dead at 11.45 pm before her body was then whisked away by her husband for a traditional cremation the next morning.
However, the cause of woman's death is being disputed by her family, who have accused Sisodia's husband of burning the 24-year-old while she was still alive.
According to the Hindustan Times, Sisodia's family called the police upon learning of an arranged cremation in the Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh, just hours after her body was released from hospital.
An autopsy conducted on the charred remains has shown ash particles in her lungs and windpipe, indicating that Sisodia may have been breathing when her body was set alight on a funeral pyre.
A two doctor panel called in to assess the case concluded that she died of "shock caused by being burnt alive".
Police superintendent Rajesh Pandey stated the same cause of death to the Hindustan Times.
"The cause of death is shock due to being burnt alive," he said.
The woman's husband, Devesh Chaudhury, has also been accused of sexually assaulting his wife prior to her death. While police are looking into the matter, he has denied any wrongdoing.
"Rachna had fallen ill and I tried my best to provide better medical treatment. The Greater Noida Hospital had declared her dead upon which we performed the cremation," Chaudhury told the Times of India.
Reader Comments
@Anna1:
'Mistakes' are made most by those most prone to making them.
Those who are most prone to making them are the least likely to admit it and the most likely to get away with it.
Please pass the rubber stamp and let's get on to the next case.
ned
In my life, I've been
blessedcursed with seeing more than the average of rubber stamp operations - most stampers of which rationaLIEze their actions by "you've got to draw the line somewhere' or 'my/our ends justify my / our means' - which are both catch-phrases of evil to catch individuals in the maw of government and or society.(Interestingly, I was reading, last night, a bit of JS Mill's' 'On the Subjugation of Women' (1862?) last night, and, then, a minute ago a book about English Deaths in India called "Two Monsoons.", based on a local saying regarding the life expectancy of an Englishman/ Westerner when they would move to India to 'get rich.' (E.g., That's where the founder of Yale made his big bucks.) (Sadly, the climate didn't get him. Oh well.)
So in the above case, given the background of suttee, etc., wives as 'property', etc., I will not be surprised to never hear of this again; or to hear that despite this, the likely murdering husband will be conviced of something like 'disordlery conduct' and fined 24 rupee(s?).*
R.C.
* One for each year of her likely immorally shortened life.
P.s., Your thoughts on my thoughts on this?: (Re writer of "The Bell Curve") (To avoid the auto insertion of the big mega link, I provide a link requiring one to simply paste together the gaps.
https: // www. sott. net /article / 344300 (I wonder if I've succeeded.) I'll see shortly.
RC