Rubbing salt on the wounds of the family, already struggling to come to terms with the sad demise of their illustrious member Prof S A R Geelani who died of a massive heartache, the Delhi police, apparently with ‘instructions from above’ was at their heartless best by forcing the family to give permission for an autopsy on his body before being taken to his ancestral home in Kashmir.

WHILE it may be a technical requirement to conduct a post-mortem prior to airlifting of a dead body, the Delhi police and the Delhi administration and the hospital authorities should have shown more preparedness and sensitivity while handling the case of Professor S A R Geelani.

The trauma that the family went through on the roads, with the police pocketing the keys of the ambulance is shameful, to say the least. All pleadings by the family members did not yield anything. The police personnel kept on passing the buck from one officer to another.

When will Indian administration government arrange to teach hospital and police personnel how to handle the dead with dignity?