Alive man receives his death certificate

Ishwar Chand Sharma, a resident of Noida Sector-22, received his death certificate on January 14 which declared him dead as on August 18 last year, police said.

Sharma's son Dev Dutt has filed a police complaint yesterday saying that the certificate has a seal of Registrar (Birth & Death Registration), they added.

However, the Registration department denied having issued the certificate. The complaint was registered today and the preliminary investigation revealed the document to be fake, they said.

The investigations are on to ascertain the cause and origin of the document, they said.