Itanagar, Oct 28: In a humanitarian gesture, the Itanagar Capital Region district administration performed the last rites of an unclaimed Covid-19 positive dead body today following all the SOPs.
The DA team was led by EAC Dakli Gara, LO to DC Sanjiv Chakraborty and other members. The person was a convict and undergoing imprisonment at Julang Central Jail. He got infected with Covid-19 and was hospitalised at DCH Chimpu since October 19 and died on Tuesday. Many formalities like Magisterial inquest, Postmortem etc had to be done before the funeral rites was carried out by the district administration.
At a time when people don’t miss a single chance to raise fingers on the system, many such stories go untold and DA works silently behind the curtain to ease the lives of many.