Srikakulam (AP): Four persons were suspended in the incident, in which the body of a 72-year-old person was taken to the burial ground on a JCB earthmover in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam district.
Srikakulam district collector J Nivas said the four persons were suspended in Sompeta village, where the dead body of a woman was carried on a tractor to the graveyard.
Speaking to media on Saturday evening, collector Nivas informed that Sompeta major village panchayat Executive Officer Jyotiswar Reddy, panchayat tractor contingent driver Tenka Anil, contingent workers A Nellaiah and I Behara Ravi have been suspended. Further, show causes notices have been served to Tehsildar S Guruprasad and MPDO Sivaji Panigrahi.
Collector Nivas said that that action has been taken on officials who did not follow protocol in shifting the bodies.
The incident took place in Udayapuram area of Palasa municipality after the 72-year-old died of COVID-19.
The PPE-clad municipal workers placed the dead body covered in a cloth on the front portion of the machine and drove to the cremation ground.
The family of the victim called the incident 'an inhumane act' as the necessary protocols for shifting a deceased coronavirus patient were not followed.(ANI)
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