Overview
- Social-media posts and some coverage alleged a man presumed dead spent the night in the Mahabubabad government hospital mortuary before being discovered alive.
- Hospital superintendent Dr. B. Srinivas Rao told The Hindu the man was never taken into the mortuary, saying he fell outside near its compound wall during a downpour.
- Officials identified the patient as 45-year-old Vendee Raju, who received first aid at the site and was then treated at the hospital, where he is conscious and relatively stable.
- The superintendent rejected claims that he was placed inside a mortuary freezer, saying survival in such a unit would be impossible.
- Some outlets reported that an inquiry was ordered into the episode, a point not independently confirmed as the conflicting accounts continue.