Family of Kerala soldier, who alleged harassment, refuse to accept his body

March 04, 2017 12:54

Relatives of Roy Mathew, the army man found dead in Nashik camp, refused to accept his body on Saturday and demanded that the postmortem be done again.

"Many questions are unanswered. The body is beyond recognition. And the officials who accompanied the body refused to show it to even close relatives including the wife of the deceased," one of Mathews relatives told the Hindustan Times when the body arrived in Thiruvananthapuram.

Mathew, a gunner in the Indian Army, was found dead near his camp in Nashik on Thursday, a few days after he accused senior officers of harassment in an interview. The programme was aired on Monday.

Although the army said it was a case of suicide, family members of 33-year-old Mathew said they suspected foul play. They are demanding an investigation into the circumstances leading to his death.

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