Ensure decent burial of Covid victims: Cleric

Lucknow, April 16

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Those dying of Covid-19 deserve decent last rites as per rituals and their bodies should not be treated as untouchable said a fatwa issued by the Darul Uloom Firangi Mahal on Thursday.

The fatwa was issued day after a section of Muslims denied burial to the first casualty in Lucknow in the Aishbagh Qabristan.

The 64-year old man had died in the King George Medical University hospital on Wednesday. He was finally buried elsewhere following the refusal of people to allow the burial in the public graveyard. According to the Islamic Centre of India press statement, Lucknow resident Sayed Ejaz Ahmad had sought a fatwa on the last rites of a Covid victims. — TNS