Family forced to exhume body over burial

UMERKOTE: A tense situation arose in Malbeda village under Raighar block over the burial of a deceased person on Thursday, after the villagers forced the family to exhume the body.

According to sources, the villagers were protesting against the burial of the deceased Ishwar Gond (18) in the village as the family had converted to another religion. The villagers ordered the family to bury the deceased in a graveyard instead of the village.