“The body started to move” just before cremation: the doctor forgot to carry out the autopsy

Rohitash Kumar, a 25-year-old young man who suffered from speech and hearing difficulties, fell ill and was taken to Jhunjhunu hospital in Rajasthan (north).

Indian media reported that he suffered an epileptic seizure, and that a doctor pronounced him dead upon arrival at the hospital.

But the hospital's chief medical officer, D. Singh, said a doctor had “prepared the post-mortem report without carrying out the autopsy, and that the body was then sent for cremation”.

“He was alive”

The chief medical officer added that “shortly before” his cremation, “the body (…) began to move” but also that“He was alive and breathing.”

The young man was taken to hospital a second time, but he was pronounced dead on Friday.

Three doctors were suspended, and police opened an investigation, the Times of India and other Indian media.