"Greed is one of the things responsible for both crooked cops and crooked politicians. The family of deceased teenager Rahul Soni is sadly all too aware of this fact, as they were unable to perform customary post-death Hindu rituals on his body, because local police officers had already sold it to a local medical college for a profit. Rahu Soni, 18, was murdered on May, 25, 2009, in Sriganganagar, the northern-most city of Rajasthan state, India. According to The Hindu Newspaper, Rahu was discovered unconscious by police officers who, within 10 minutes of finding him, sold his body to Tantia Medical College. Ever since this sordid story recently hit Indian headlines, the Rajasthan Assembly has been in an uproar. First of all, what the police did was clearly illegal. Under the Rajasthan Anatomical Act, the police must wait at least 48 hours before they sell an unidentified body to a medical institute. Plus the police must make a sincere effort to try and identify the body, whether by advertising in local papers or seeking out family members. Second, an investigation by local officials revealed that the Rajasthan police may potentially have illegally sold over 20 bodies within the past 5 years."
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