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Dead man comes alive in Surat PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Monday, 07 June 2004
June 7, 2004

RAJKOT : It was a case of a dead man walking, straight into the house of relatives still mourning his “death” hours after they cremated “him”.



Prafula Moteria got a new lease on life as husband Vijay “came back from the dead” after the family cremated the body of a person who had died in a road accident in Surat , mistaking it to be that of Vijay.

While Vijay, 32, runs a diamond polishing unit in Surat , Prafula is a nurse at the New Civil Hospital there.

Vijay’s “return” kicked off celebrations in the Moteria household, in sharp contrast to Saturday when the family was in mourning.

What has shocked the family is that none of them, including Prafula, could make out that the body was not Vijay’s. “Prafula was in Rajkot with her children. She had last spoken to Vijay on Thursday when he called from Surat . It was Vijay’s brother-in-law, Jaysukh, who was visiting Surat , who first gave us the news on Friday night,” says Vijay’s sister, Bhavna Kanani.

“When Jaysukh visited Vijay’s house in Surat , he had left his mobile phone number with a neighbour when he found the house locked. It was this neighbour who informed him of a body brought to Civil Hospital which bore a resemblance to Vijay.

Even Jaysukh identified the body as that of Vijay on Friday and brought it to Rajkot on Saturday,” says Kanani.

It was a day that the family would like to forget. But later, another call from Surat brought the smile back to Prafula’s face. It was their family friend calling to say that Vijay was alive.

“The news of Vijay’s death had shattered me. I then called my son, who is in Surat . He informed me that Vijay was alive and they were together when the ‘cremation’ was taking place,” says Dhirubhai, a family friend of the Moterias.

“We hugged and cried when he returned. The couple has a four-year-old daughter and 18-month-old son” says another sister, Shobana. “The physique of the person we cremated, even the marks on the back of the body, matched Vijay’s,” says Jaysukh.

Cops at the Sachin police station in Surat said that a case of accidental death had been registered on Friday, when a man on a motorcycle had rammed into a tanker. Not much is known about the victim.

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From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

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