Jammu Family Takes Home Wrong Body, Missing Son Returns Alive Hours Later
A Jammu family mistakenly identified an unclaimed body as their missing son, only to have him return home alive hours after the cremation process had begun. The incident has prompted public scrutiny regarding the identification protocols for unclaimed bodies at the Government Medical College Hospital.
Why it matters
It highlights critical failures in hospital mortuary management and identification procedures that can cause severe emotional trauma to families.
A shocking case of mistaken identity in Jammu saw a family take home a body they believed was their missing son, only to discover hours later that he was alive.Vishal Kumar, 24, a resident of Sohanjana who works as a security guard at a factory, left for duty on Saturday, but did not return home. When repeated attempts to contact him failed, his family lodged a missing person complaint at a local police post.The family's distress deepened the next morning when Vishal's sister in Punjab, received a call from the Government Medical College (GMC), Hospital about an unidentified body lying in the mortuary.The family rushed to the hospital and was shown the body.
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