Moushumi Chatterjee says daughter’s body was kept in morgue as her in-laws didn’t clear hospital bills, recalls husband facing ‘humiliation’: ‘He’d wake up howling’

Moushumi Chatterjee had accused her late daughter Payal’s husband, Dicky Sinha, and his family of neglecting her medical care and preventing her from meeting her daughter.

By: Entertainment Desk

Chennai | May 6, 2025 04:16 PM IST

3 min read

Moushumi Chatterjee remembers daughter Payal. (Pic: Nayandeep Rakshit/YT)

Veteran actor Moushumi Chatterjee and her husband Jayant Mukherjee lost their firstborn, Payal, in 2019. Payal passed away at the age of 45 after a prolonged battle with diabetes and remained in a coma for two years before her death. She was married to businessman Dicky Sinha at the time. In a recent interaction, Moushumi recalled memories of her daughter and shared how her family still hasn’t been able to cope with the loss.

Moushumi also opened up about her rift with former son-in-law Dicky Sinha. According to an earlier report by India Today, the two families had a fallout following a dispute over a business collaboration. In 2018, Moushumi filed a petition in the Bombay High Court, requesting to be appointed as Payal’s guardian. She accused Dicky and Payal’s in-laws of neglecting her medical needs. Moushumi also alleged that Payal’s in-laws refused to pay her medical bills and prevented her from meeting her daughter during her illness.

“I don’t think my husband has completely gotten over Payal’s death. I am also not over it. This vacuum will be there throughout our lives,” she said in an interview with Nayandeep Rakshit. Moushumi described the experience of having to go to court to meet her ill daughter as “torcher” and mentioned how the ordeal also affected her younger daughter Megha Chatterjee and her husband, who were allegedly ‘humiliated’ by Payal’s in-laws.

“We can’t get over this grief. When a child dies, nobody can get over that. Payal was very motherly to Megha because they had an eight-year age gap,” she said. Speaking about Jayant’s emotional state after Payal’s passing, Moushumi added, “Sometimes he would get up in the night howling Payal’s name. These things you can’t explain with words.”

She also spoke about the strength she has had to muster for the sake of her family. “I tell them, ‘It has happened; you can’t do anything about it.’ I ask them to forget it,” she said.

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While Moushumi accused Payal’s in-laws and husband of neglect, Dicky had earlier accused the veteran actor of not attending Payal’s funeral or visiting her in the mortuary. In an earlier interview with SpotboyE, Dicky had said, “Moushumi did not even see Payal’s face after she died. She wasn’t at the funeral; she neither came to the mortuary.”

However, during her latest conversation, Moushumi refuted this and shared that she did, in fact, visit the morgue after Payal’s death. She also revealed that Payal’s body was kept in the morgue because the hospital bills were unpaid. “I went to the hospital when she was no more. She was kept in a morgue because the hospital’s bill wasn’t paid. I took all that nonsense,” she said. Moushumi added, “You learn from these things how many types of people are on this earth.”

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