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From one police station to the other, with a body

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: An APSRTC bus driver and conductor were forced to go from one police station to the other on Tuesday when they went to hand over the body of an unidentified man who passed away while travelling in the bus.

The person, in his mid-30s, boarded the Secunderabad-bound Miyapur-2 depot bus at Erragadda around 10.30 a.m. When the bus reached SR Nagar area, he fell sick and started vomiting.

Some fellow passengers tried to help him by offering water.

But his condition deteriorated within seconds and the man started coughing out blood.

Worried over his fate, driver of the bus Baba Rathode and conductor Naresh requested the passengers to get down and drove straight to Gandhi Hospital at Musheerabad where doctors declared him brought dead.

The ordeal begins

Feeling bad for not being able to save the passenger, Rathode and Naresh asked hospital authorities to take the body. But they allegedly refused saying that they would receive it only through the police station concerned. Then began the ordeal for Rathode and Naresh.

With the body in the bus, they first went to Begumpet police station. On being told that the case comes under the jurisdiction of Ramgopalpet police station, the duo rushed there only to be redirected to Gandhinagar and Chilakalaguda police stations.

With one police station after the other refusing to take the body under the pretext of jurisdiction, the duo finally went to Gandhi Hospital and stood there with their fingers crossed.

"Sir, I did not even have my lunch or dinner. We never knew that even handing over a dead body involves so much confusion," a dejected Naresh said.

The driver and conductor, along with the body in the bus, were waiting at the hospital when reports last came in.

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