Mumbai: The 45-day long wait for the family of Rajnikant Dalal in Mumbai will end on Friday. Dalal's body had been in a Saudi morgue since April 26 after he suffered a heart attack. Dalal's family had been running from pillar to post since his death to get his body back to India.
His body will officially be handed over to family members post 10 am. The news was conveyed by the Indian embassy in Riyadh to Dalal's grieving family in Mumbai. "We have received email that body will arrive on Friday morning via Saudi airlines. We haven't heard from Indian embassy. After the news was spread by media, then only the authorities started working seriously," his daughter said.
Despite Dalal's employment contract stating that his sponsor will bear expenses during the event of his death, the family had to arrange for Rs 2.2 lakh and send it to the sponsor. After several calls, last week, the Indian Embassy informed the family that they have sent the body.
"They said body has been sent by Gulf and asked us to go to airport. We arranged for all the materials required for final rites and called our relatives. When we went there, they told us no booking for dead body was made," Rekha had claimed.
The family had lost all the hope as the Indian Embassy had asked them to do the paperwork again.
CNN-IBN had reported on the plight of his family who had been running from pillar to post for over 40 days to get his body back to India.
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