A team of the Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) District administration led by EAC Dakli Gara and LO to DC Sanjiv Chakraborty carried out the last rite of an unclaimed Covid-19 positive person who succumbed to the infection on Tuesday. The deceased individual’s dead body was disposed of by the team following all the SoPs.

According to reports the deceased was a convict who was undergoing imprisonment at Julang Central Jail. He was infected with the novel Coronavirus following which he was hospitalised at the dedicated Covid hospital in Chimpu on 19 October. But, later on succumbed to the deadly virus on 27 October 2020. 

All necessary formalities including magisterial inquest and postmortem were done before the funeral was carried out by the officials of the ICR District administration.