Body carried on rickshaw: Dist admin holds GRP responsible

The Banda district administration here today held the Government Railway Police (GRP) responsible for the incident in which a family had to carry the body of their relative on a rickshaw for post- portem.

The video of the body being carried on the rickshaw had gone viral on social media and local news channels.

"Instead of arranging for an ambulance to carry the body of Ram Asrey, it was taken on a rickshaw. This was revealed in a probe carried out by SDM Sadar. Prima facie, the GRP has been found guilty," Banda District Magistrate Mahendra Bahadur Singh told

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