Crematoria, ambulance drivers make a killing?
Crematoria, ambulance drivers make a killing?
ByBellie ThomasBellie Thomas / Updated: Apr 21, 2021, 06:00 IST
Drivers, crematoria workers allegedly working in tandem to raise the cost of final rites
As if the pain of a loved one passing away were not searing enough, many bereaved in the city are possibly even being fleeced by
ambulance drivers and crematoria at a time of their grief.
Bhaskar Hebbale, a priest, performed final rites for five
bodies – four at the
Sumanahalli crematorium and one at the TR Mills Wood Crematorium on Monday alone. He said that he had observed some of the nefarious practices. “Both the parties together make around Rs 30,000 to Rs 40,000 per body depending on the financial status of the deceased and they offer the kin of the deceased a package which include even the Purohit charges, ambulance vehicle cleaning, and sometimes will also include death certificate,” Hebbale told Bangalore Mirror.