Girls keep dead mum for 5 days for her ‘return’

Trichy police recovered the decomposed body of an old woman from a house in Tamil Nadu’s Sokkampatti village after her unmarried daughters sat with the body for five days ‘praying’ for their 78-yearold mother to ‘resurrect’.

According to police, the incident came to light on Friday near Manapparai.

The police said they received an anonymous note about a foul smell emanating from the residence of a deceased retired female teacher. The police reached the incident site, but her daughters, both unmarried, did not allow the police to enter their house.

The police said they informed the local village officer who arrived at the site and told the woman’s daughters that they would break open the door if they refused to open it.

However, after some persuasion, the women allowed the police to enter the house and found that the body was nearly five days old and in a decomposed state. The police took the body for post-mortem on Saturday.

Manapparai police inspector, Karunakaran said, “The daughters of the deceased woman argued with the police that their mother was alive even after conducting the post-mortem. The woman’s body was later buried.”