Even as Bollywood reels from the death of music composer Shravan Rathod, it is now emerging that days before testing positive for COVID-19, he had visited the controversial Kumbh Mela in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
The news was confirmed by his son Saanjeev Rathod who spoke to the Indian Express from a hospital bed while recovering from the virus.
“We had never thought our family would have to go through such tough times, my father passed away, I am Covid positive and so is my mother. My brother is also positive and is in home isolation, but since our father has died, he is being allowed to do the final procedures to do last rites for our father,” Sanjeev told the Indian daily.