The Deputy Chief Minister’s Office said in a statement that video recording of all postmortems would be done throughout the night and would be preserved for future reference and legal purposes. “Making a historic reform in the national capital, the Delhi government led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has made postmortem of dead bodies possible even after sunset in Delhi,” he said.
Sisodia said this would not only change the situation for relatives of the deceased, who often have to wait long to receive bodies, but would also encourage organ donation and transplantation. In cases related to organ donation, postmortem will be done on priority basis, the statement said. It quoted Sisodia as saying that the Delhi government had sent a proposal to the central government for approval of postmortem in hospitals after sunset.
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