Woman moves SC to bring son's body for last rites

NEW DELHI: Is cremation arsenic per the dormant person's religion and accompanying rituals a cardinal close of his kin? The question came up erstwhile a parent told Supreme Court that her son, who had died astatine Sharjah (UAE) wherever helium was moving arsenic a carpenter, was cremated connected overseas ungraded by the authorities determination with his household members being denied the close to execute the past rites.A nonmigratory of Basti successful UP, 57-year-old Savitri informed SC that her 29-year-old lad Pankaj, who was moving with World Star Company, Sharjah, for the past 2 years, had gone incommunicado since Dec 2. She past lodged a ailment with Basti constabulary connected Jan 10. On Feb 4, she received a telephone from the Indian Embassy successful Dubai informing her astir Pankaj's decease and his cremation there. Appearing for her, elder advocator Sanjay M Nuli told a seat of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta that arsenic a parent she was entitled to guarantee her lad was fixed a decent cremation.

"Cremation is 1 of the Sanskars, that is Antim Sanskar -- an important ritual which could not person been compromised with successful immoderate mode oregon concern and denying the parent her close amounts to gross usurpation of cardinal and quality rights arsenic enshrined nether Articles 21 and 25 of the Constitution," Nuli said. The seat issued announcement to the Union govt and sought its effect by March 16.