Updated On: 24 September, 2022 10:57 AM IST | Kanpur | PTI
Vimlesh Dixit, who worked in the Income Tax department, died in April last year but his family was reluctant to perform his last rites because they believed he was in a coma, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Alok Ranjan said

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In a bizarre incident, the family of an Income Tax department employee who died last year kept his body at home here for almost 18 months assuming that he was in a coma, officials said on Friday.
The man’s wife, who appears to be mentally unstable, sprinkled ‘gangajal’ on his highly decomposed body every morning, hoping that it would help him come out of the coma, they said.