Woman approaches court to get back husband's body from Italy
May 15, 2007 - 8:46:21 PM
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'It was only on March 30 that I found out about my husband on the Internet. I got the landline number of restaurant Oceania Pizzeria where he worked and I learnt he had been murdered,' Gupta said.
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By IANS,
[RxPG] New Delhi, May 15 - A 38-year-old woman from Noida in Uttar Pradesh Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court seeking its help in procuring the body of her slain husband from Itlay, where it has been lying in a hospital's mortuary for the last six months.
On a petition by Anita Gupta, the mother of an eight year-old boy, Justice B.D. Ahmed issued notices to the central government and external affairs ministry - seeking their replies within ten days.
In her petition, she said neither the Indian consulate general in Milan nor the ministry of external affairs in India are heeding to her pleas of help in procuring the body of her husband Ram Chander from Italy, where, she claimed, he was murdered Nov 11 last year.
Gupta said her husband worked as a chef in an Italian bar-cum-restaurant in Riggio-Emilia, at a distance of nearly five hours train ride from Milan.
Maintaining that his body was lying in a local mortuary at Riggio-Emilia, she said her husband was strangulated to death and she came to know of his murder through Internet.
Gupta said, 'I spoke to my husband last on his 44th birthday, November 3 last year. He used to send me and my 8-year-old son our living expenses between the 10th and 15th of every month. So, when we didn't receive anything, I called him on his two mobile phones daily till November 30 but there was no response.'
On Jan 6, she wrote a letter to the ministry of external affairs seeking help to trace her husband. The MEA also had written letters to the two Indian missions in Italy.
'It was only on March 30 that I found out about my husband on the Internet. I got the landline number of restaurant Oceania Pizzeria where he worked and I learnt he had been murdered,' Gupta said.
She said ever since then she had been in constant contact with the MEA officials, seeking their help in bringing back his body but the officials were not listening to her pleas.
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