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There have been several incidents in the state where the family members did not accept the dead body and raised demands like compensation and a government job to one family member, like in the cases of rape and murder of a woman in Karauli few days back and gang rape and murder of a woman in Bikaner last month.
The Rajasthan assembly has passed a bill that prohibits protests with a family member s body, imposing a two-year jail term for violators. The bill aims to prevent the use of dead bodies to press unjustified demands and to provide dignity to the deceased.
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The Bill binds the deceased person’s family to claim the body at the earliest and empowers the district administration to seize the body and conduct the last rites.