Denied help, man walks with wife’s body for 10 km

Bhawanipatna (Odisha), August 25

A day after a tribal man had to walk 10 km carrying his wife's body on his shoulder in Odisha's Kalahandi after failing to get a vehicle from a government hospital, a probe was ordered to ascertain the circumstances leading to the incident.

"The District Collector of Kalahandi has ordered an inquiry into the incident. Sub-Collector of Bhawanipatna has been directed to conduct the probe and submit a report at the earliest," state Urban Development Minister Pushpendra Singhdeo, who hails from Kalahandi district, said in Bhubaneswar.

"Sub-Collector Sukanta Tripathy has been asked to ascertain whether the man, Dana Majhi, had been denied a vehicle to take his wife's body from the hospital," said a senior officer. Amang Dei, 42, had died of TB at the district headquarters hospital at Bhawanipatna. — PTI