Man refuses to claim body at JJ Hospital

Jadhav’s nephew,Vijay Narayan was a peon at BMC’s municipal market in Govandi and had recently shifted to the staff quarters at Babu Genu Market building along with his mother.

Both son and mother had been sleeping when the ground-plus-four storey structure collapsed. “My nephew’s built doesn’t match with that of the body’s. Besides,he had good hair on his scalp while the one at JJ was a bald man. He never wore socks but this body had socks on its feet,” said Jadhav who works at a security firm.

“We found my sister’s body at JJ Hospital,the next day of the collapse,” he said. He fears that another family might have claimed his nephew’s body by mistake.

“We have sent the body for a DNA test. The police will later take the blood samples of relatives of Vijay Narayan to confirm whether it is his body or someone else’s,” said Dr S S Chavan from JJ Hospital’s Forensic Department.

“We have checked with the police and fire officials but are not able to find his nephew’s body,” said Yamini Jadhav,corporator from Dockyard Road.

“I will wait until the DNA test,” said Vijay Dhondu. After 10 days of meeting officials,he is showing signs of fatigue. “I want to give him a proper cremation but I am not getting any support. I have a family to look after and this is proving difficult for me.”