Author: IANS
Publication: Yahoo News
Date: November 8, 2007
URL: http://in.news.yahoo.com/071108/43/6n01q.html
A 70-year-old woman's body has been lying
in a Kolkata morgue for the past one week as her children have approached
the Calcutta High Court to decide whether she should be buried or cremated.
A Hindu by birth, Pari Mallik, a resident
of Chhoto Mallikpara in Howrah, had married a Muslim after the death of her
first husband -- a Hindu.
Pari died on Oct 30 and her children from
her first marriage want her last rites to be performed according to Hindu
rituals while her second husband and daughter want a burial, local reports
said.
Both the families have now approached the
Calcutta High Court seeking to perform her last rites according to their own
religious practices.
