Man assumed dead returns home after family ‘cremated’ him in Gurugram

The police said the DNA samples of the body have been preserved and will be used to ascertain the identity of the person whose last rites were conducted by the family. A case of murder has been registered at the Sector 37 police station.

According to the police, Poojan Prasad, a labour contractor who lived with his wife and three sons in Mohammadpur Jharsa village here, did not come home for a week, after which his son Sandeep Kumar filed a missing person complaint on September 1.

A senior investigating officer said that the confusion started on August 28 when police recovered a body with a severed head near an abandoned warehouse in Sector 37 police station area.