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The Madurai territory authorities connected Tuesday (June 16, 2026) took the assemblage of Akash Delison, 26, who died connected March 8 allegedly owed to custodial torture by the Manamadurai police, to the Thathaneri cremation yard, aft his household members refused to person his body.
Amid choky security, the assemblage was transported from the mortuary of Government Rajaji Hospital successful Madurai, arsenic household members, on with their supporters, staged a protestation against the effort to instrumentality the body. The determination comes after the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court connected Tuesday directed the officials to instrumentality contiguous steps for a dignified disposal of his mortal remains.
The household members said that they would spell connected entreaty against the tribunal bid and sought much clip for cremation. However, the officials told them that they would instrumentality the court’s direction.
As hostility mounted, 14 persons were taken into custody for trying to forestall the officials from shifting the body. However, the parents, sister, and uncle of Akash Delison were taken to Thathaneri cremation yard, wherever the assemblage would beryllium cremated.
