Shocking! 'Dead' man returns home a week after his funeral, read full story here

In a shocking case from Rajasthan's Rajsamand, a 40-year-old man presumed dead showed up at his residence, a week after they had performed his funeral. The man named Omkar Lal Gadulia's relatives wrongly took possession of the body of a man named Goverdhan Prajapat who died in the state-run RK Hospital. Both were under treatment at the same hospital.

The family of Omkar Lal Gadulia had performed a funeral mistakenly identifying a decomposed corpse as his body. 

Omkar Lal Gadulia a liquor addict, had gone to Udaipur without informing his family on May 11. He was admitted to a hospital owing to some liver-related problem. On the same day, Prajapat was taken to the RK Hospital but he died during treatment.

The family members wrongly identified the body to be that of Gadulia going by a similar scar on his right hand and appearance, and the police handed over the body without conducting any post-mortem and DNA test.

The body was taken away and the final rites were performed on May 15 itself. However, Omkar Lal Gadulia returned home on May 23 and was shocked to learn that he was believed dead. Later, the police launched an investigation and identified the body which Gadulia's family had cremated as that of Goverdhan Prajapat. 

Meanwhile, the hospital authorities admitted that the whole incident was a goof-up on part of the nursing and mortuary staff. Appropriate action would be taken in the matter, Principal Medical Officer of RK Hospital, Lalit Purohit said.