SC stays Uttarakhand HC order directing AIIMS Rishikesh to handover body of prof G D Agarwal to Matri Sadan ashram

On Friday, a Division Bench of the Uttarakhand High Court comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari said in an order: “We are of the considered view that the followers are entitled to have the last Darshan of the body of Agrawal also remembered as Swami (Gyan Swaroop) Sanand.”

The high court ordered that Agrawal’s body be handed over to the Matri Sadan ashram where, on June 22 this year, he had begun the fast-unto-death for the conservation of the river Ganga. The court further ordered the body to be handed over “after embalming and preserving it in ice to enable his followers to pay their last homage and also to perform religious ceremonies as per Hindu religion.”

However, within hours of the high court order, a Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Madan B Lokur, in an order said: “The order of the (Uttarakhand) High Court, if implemented, will make the organs of the deceased whose body has been embalmed in AIIMS, Rishikesh unfit for being transplanted to other human beings. In view of the above, we deem it proper to stay the order of the High Court.”

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