<p class="title">The kin of the people, who were killed in Tuesday's flyover collapse at Varanasi, had to pay a bribe to take the bodies from the postmortem house at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in the town.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to sources, the kins were charged Rs 300 for each body and those who refused to pay were not allowed to take their dead for conducting their last rites.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The matter came to light when a video showing an employee at the postmortem house charging money for handing over the bodies to the kin went viral.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It also showed the employee haggling with the kin over the payment of money.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Taking a serious view of the matter, Varanasi District Magistrate Yogeshwar Ram Mishra suspended the employee. </p>.<p class="bodytext">An FIR was also lodged against him, sources said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier, the state government suspended four senior engineers of the Uttar Pradesh Bridge Corporation, the state-owned company which had been given the contract for constructing the flyover.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A case under different sections of the IPC was also lodged against them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nineteen people were killed and over 50 others injured, when a portion of an under-construction flyover had collapsed near the Cantonment Railway station in Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, about 300 km from here, on Tuesday.</p>
<p class="title">The kin of the people, who were killed in Tuesday's flyover collapse at Varanasi, had to pay a bribe to take the bodies from the postmortem house at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in the town.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to sources, the kins were charged Rs 300 for each body and those who refused to pay were not allowed to take their dead for conducting their last rites.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The matter came to light when a video showing an employee at the postmortem house charging money for handing over the bodies to the kin went viral.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It also showed the employee haggling with the kin over the payment of money.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Taking a serious view of the matter, Varanasi District Magistrate Yogeshwar Ram Mishra suspended the employee. </p>.<p class="bodytext">An FIR was also lodged against him, sources said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier, the state government suspended four senior engineers of the Uttar Pradesh Bridge Corporation, the state-owned company which had been given the contract for constructing the flyover.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A case under different sections of the IPC was also lodged against them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nineteen people were killed and over 50 others injured, when a portion of an under-construction flyover had collapsed near the Cantonment Railway station in Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, about 300 km from here, on Tuesday.</p>
