The family of Sharma, a farmer and resident of the Chaura Raghunathpur locality in Noida's Sector- 22, received the certificate on January 14.
Sharma is very much alive and was present in the house when the registry was delivered.
The certificate — issued on August 30 last year — ' informed' the family that Sharma had ' died' on August 18 at his house in Chaura Raghunathpur.
Sharma's son Dev Dutt said: " We filed a complaint with the Sector- 24 police last Sunday, two days after we got the letter." The investigation is now being headed by sub- inspector Lokendra Singh of the Uttar Pradesh Police.
" We don't know yet who issued the death certificate. The seal at the bottom of the certificate is unreadable and makes nothing clear," Singh said.
" We made inquiries at the district hospital but they deny issuing the certificate," he added.
Singh said the Gram Panchayat officer of the block also denied issuing any such letter.
" We believe this is someone's idea of a joke. The culprit did this either to trouble the family or to divert their attention from something that they are doing," the investigating officer added.
Sharma's son Dev Dutt agreed that someone maybe playing a prank on their family. " This could be a conspiracy by someone against us," he said.
A similar case was reported on June 23 last year, when a mischief by a neighbour cost an elderly man his life in Ghaziabad.
Than Singh, a 75- year- old resident of Delhi Gate Kaila Walan in Ghaziabad, died of a heart attack after he was sent the receipt of his ' cremation' costs.
According to the receipt, Than Singh died on June 17 and his cremation was held under Shed No. 5 of the Hindon cremation grounds.
Everyone at Than Singh's home believed this was someone's mischief.
But Than Singh was deeply shocked with the news of his ' cremation' and, according to his family, " could not bear the pain of it, even though he did not react at the time". He shrugged it off as a joke.
But the next day, soon after he returned from his morning walk, he had a heart attack. He died immediately.
Reproduced From Mail Today.
Courtesy: Yahoo India
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