Overview

• A wrong sticker at Bengaluru’s dispatch point led to Rakesh Shaw’s coffin being handed to a family in Odisha who later found another man inside.
• Shaw, a 21-year-old private firm supervisor who died of electrocution on August 15, had his remains bundled with another body en route to Siliguri, West Bengal.
• Both corpses were loaded into the same vehicle for separate deliveries before the Odisha family discovered the error.
• The transport service recalled the ambulance mid-journey and swapped the bodies back to their correct destinations.
• All accounts cite PTI reports and family allegations, with no official comment yet from the funeral transport company, spotlighting gaps in cross-state corpse handling procedures.