Body of Palamu labourer identified as Anuj Manjhi who died in Maharashtra’s Sholapur on May 19 is coming by road to Palamu Paton block’s Karar Kalan village today. The body is accompanied by two people of the same village who were with Anuj Manjhi and had the same accident in which Anuj had died on the spot. Anuj’s brother Sanjay Manjhi who is now at Karar Kala village under Paton block said, “My brother died on May 19. The Maharashtra government did nothing. The body remained there uncared. He was post mortemed on May 20 and then was sent for Jharkhand’s Palamu.”

Sources said SP Ajay Linda telephoned his counterpart a 2010 IPS officer there asking him to send the body here who then said of Collector’s intervention in it.

The Secretary State Disaster Management Amitabh Kaushal later assured, “Things would move now. Let me co ordinate”.  Soon, Linda told this correspondent that officer in charge of Paton police station Ashish Khakha has been approached by BDO Paton Prabhakar Mirdha telling him that body will be dispatched for Jharkhand around 6 in the evening of May 20.

The body started for its last journey in Jharkhand’s Palamu on May 20 evening after full 36 hours of rotting there as this accident had occurred at 4 AM on May 19.

Sanjay Manjhi told this correspondent today around 3 PM that the two injured and the dead were at Suratpur in Chhatisgarh petrol pump and could be in Palamu’s Paton by 7 or 7.30 if the vehicle did not develop any glitch.

Linda said “Once this vehicle enters our district whether from Ramkanda side or from Rehla side the nearest police station will rush to this vehicle with water, glucose, biscuits etc for the living ones.”