A few cases have come to the fore in the district where friends and relatives failed to attend the last rites or funeral of deceased persons due to the lockdown over Covid 19.
A couple of days back a minority community person died in the township area. As per the Islamic religion, minority community members, including friends and relatives, generally congregate to participate in the funeral prayer and generally they go with the body to the burial ground. But, only the family members performed the funeral prayers at the house as the relatives and other community members skipped, informed Sk Inayat, a minority community leader .
According to one Jagannath Sahu, a resident of Bhageswarpur, his elder brother died on Wednesday. In order to take the body of his elder brother, the local police had given permission for 8 to 10 persons in the bier procession by maintaining social distancing. As a result, many relatives had failed to go with the bier procession, lamented Jagannath. Even, the friends and relatives of a deceased person were not willing to meet the grief stricken family by visiting their house due to lockdown.
A deceased woman’s son in Aul area, who was working as a plumber in Rajasthan, failed to have the last darshan of his mother due to the lockdown.
In several other cases, only a few persons attended the funerals and subsequent rites.
