MALAPPURAM (KERALA): In this week's dose of weird news, a family in Kerala, believing the dead would resurrect, kept a man's body inside their house for three months. The body of V Seyed, 50, who worked as a religious teacher, kept in the house in Malappuram, was found by the police after several complaints that there was no response from the house.
Officials broke open the door only to find the man's two sons, and a daughter and wife sitting in prayer around his body which had been reduced to a skeleton. They immediately took the family into custody and sent the body for autopsy. “The family was under the belief that the dead man would come back to life and all of them were praying,” an official said. Locals said the family never had any contact with anyone and always kept to themselves. “We are now waiting for the cause of the death. If it's a natural death, then there might not be anything else to do in the case,” the official said.
The body, which has in the past three months been completely reduced to a skeleton, has been shifted to the Government Medical College at Manjeri near Malappuram. According to the neighbours, the family never maintained any relations with them and hence nobody bothered at their behaviour of remaining aloof from the society. The police have recommended counselling for the family.
