Man forced to carry mother's body on bike in MP

BHOPAL: A man was forced to carry his mother's dead body on his motorbike after an ambulance driver refused to take the corpse to their residence near Umat in Madhya Pradesh's Seoni district.
Bhimrao was taking his ailing mother Parvati Bai (70) to a community health centre in Barghat on Tuesday when she died. He then dialled 108 for an ambulance.
"The ambulance responded to the call and reached the spot within 10 minutes, but (the driver) refused to carry the dead body," Seoni district collector S Dhanaraju told TOI.
"We are investigating the matter. The district coordinator of the ambulance service defended the action saying it was not in the ambulance service protocol to carry dead bodies."
An explanation has been sought from the state coordinator of the service, the collector said. The case has come to light days after a man in Odisha carried his wife's body for over 10km as he could not get an ambulance.