Family members of a deceased woman from Sagar lodged a snap protest outside the office of Mangaluru tahsildar on Tuesday evening, alleging a delay in filing the mahazar report.
According to the office of Mangaluru tahsildar Rekha (26), a resident of Anandapura near Sagar in Shivamogga district, was admitted to a private hospital in Mangaluru on Monday following burns.
She succumbed to the burns on Tuesday morning. As her death comes four years after her marriage, the tahsildar had to take a detailed statement of the parents of the deceased before conducting the post-mortem.
After taking the statement, tahsildar Mohan Rao left the mortuary to allow the police some time to place before him, records of the case, for signing the mahazar report. He returned to his office, which is about 500 metres away.
Report sought
Rekha’s relatives took possession of the body and came with the police to the tahsildar’s office to get the mahazar report signed. They were agitated when they were told that the tahsildar not in his office.
“They were tense and exhausted waiting the whole day for the body,” an official from the tahsildar’s office said and added they arranged to get the mahazar report signed in half-an-hour.
