Bahrain has not faced any delays in repatriating dead bodies to India, it has emerged.
Officials from the Indian Community Relief Fund (ICRF) spoke to the GDN following an uproar over a rule in India that obliges airlines to secure permission to repatriate dead bodies 48 hours before the scheduled flight.
The rule, issued at India’s Calicut International Airport (Karipur), asks for four documents to be submitted to the airport authority; death certificate, embalming certificate, a no-objection letter from the Indian Embassy, and a copy of the deceased’s cancelled passport.
Reports claimed that the directive was issued following incidents of delays in the repatriation process from GCC states and bodies left unclaimed at the airport.
It has caused anger amongst social workers in the Gulf, however, ICRF members in Bahrain insisted the rule was not new and that the country was not affected.
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