Woman spends three days with hubby's corpse

A woman spent three days with the corpse of her husband in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah town, about 250 kilometres from here.
 
According to the police sources here, the matter came to light, when the neighbours, unable to bear the stench emanating from the house, broke open the doors and went inside on Friday night.
 
The woman was found sitting beside the rotting body of her husband.
 
Sources said that couple, who had a house at Ashok Nagar locality in the town, lived mostly alone and not many people visited them.
 
The couple had no issue, sources said.
 
The owner of the house, 75- year old Rajendra Kumar Verma had retired as a government employee. He had not been keeping well for the past few months, the police said.
 
Verma, the police, said had died on Wednesday night. ''The wife did not inform anyone....we also did not hear any sound in the house...since they mostly kept to themselves, no one found it abnormal,'' said a neighbour.
 
The neighbours decided to inquire when stench started emanating from the rotting body. The body has been sent for postmortem examination. ''Prima facie it seems that Verma died of natural causes,'' said a police official.
 
Police said that they would get the woman medically examined to ascertain if she was mentally unstable. ''She seems to be normal...the death of her husband may have had an emotional impact on her,'' the official said.
 
Earlier also there have been cases, where people spent several days with the bodies of their loved ones.