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Surat: On April 18, when Vijay Patil succumbed to Covid-19 at Valsad Civil Hospital, the administration could not reach out to his family members immediately for his final rites and so tasked cops to find his family members for cremation.
However, when cops reached the address Patil had provided at the time of admission, the thatched house near Valsad city police station was found empty. Patil, a ragpicker used to live alone. With nobody to claim the body, police donned its humanitarian uniform and took up the task of giving the body a dignified send off it deserved. Valsad cops who have been tasked with finding kin of Covid dead, cremated Patil with all Covid protocols in place.