The day after the heart-rending incident of a man carrying his wife’s body for more than ten kms in Odisha from the District Headquarters Hospital in Bhawanipatna to his village on his shoulders, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on the sidelines of a programme in Bengaluru on Friday expressed said stringent action would be taken against the guilty.
He said “indeed that is very distressing news and we have ordered an inquiry and very stringent action should be taken against those found guilty. We have a new policy in force now, which is ambulance services to take dead bodies where they are required to be taken.”
Assuring an incident like this would not be repeated in future, Patnaik said, “let’s wait for the result of the inquiry, strict action will be taken.
“Naveen Patnaik is the CM for the last 16 years and this incident of a tribal man from famine stricken Kalahandi District in Odisha shows apathy of the administration.