Woman lives with dead father for five days

Burdwan(WB): A woman was on Saturday found living with the decomposed body of her father for the past five-six days in Burdwan district, police said. Following a complaint, police reached the house of Panchu Soren at Muktarpaar under Madhabdihi police station and found that his daughter Panmani is living with his decomposed body. It appeared that Soren (68), retired employee of block land revenue office of Raina II block in the district, died at least five days ago, police said. Police also found that Panmani regularly served food to his dead father. Panmani, whose husband and two sons work elsewhere, said his father was ill and that was why he could not take the food. Police said it took a lot of time for them to make her understand that her father was no more and later arrangements were made to bury the body at home. (PTI)