SIALKOT: Police and the Rangers buried on Monday as trust the body of a man, believed to be an Indian Hindu, in a Sialkot border village after Border Security Force (BSF) personnel refused to collect it from the Punjab Rangers on Sunday.

The Rangers said they had contacted their Indian counterparts at the Inayat Shaheed Post near Bajwat-Sialkot to hand over the body to them. BSF officials first hesitated and later refused to collect it. Instead of cremating the body, police and the Rangers buried it in the village graveyard.

Sialkot District Coordination Officer (DCO) Dr Asif Tufail said the local police had found the body floating in the River Chenab near Head Marala on Sunday.

He said the body had some tattoos inscribed in Hindi and a necklace with an idol.

Published in Dawn, July 26th, 2016

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