'How long will it take': Man spent years educating daughters dies at old age home, they attend last rites through video call
PTC News Desk: A father who spent all his life educating his daughters unfortunately left for heavenly abode while being absolutely alone and no one beside him during his final time, as women claimed to be busy and unable to travel for their father's last rites.
Instead they attended the last rites through video call from Nepal, Uttar Pradesh and Mumbai.
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Shivcharan Ram Ratan Gupta, a former textile trader from Mumbai, had been living at an old-age home in Sonipat's West Ram Nagar for nearly one-and-a-half years. He moved there with his wife Meena, who passed away earlier. Gupta died at around 3:30 am on Tuesday after a long illness.
Daughters attend father's last rites online
After his death, the old-age home, run by the Samaj Kalyan Shiksha Samiti, informed his three daughters. However, none of them could travel to Sonipat for the funeral and instead attended their father's last rites through a video call.
The cremation was carried out by the old-age home staff with help from local residents. According to administrator Anand Kumar, Gupta regularly spoke to his daughters on the phone, but after his health worsened, the calls became less frequent.
Kumar said the daughters were informed about their father's serious condition around 20 days before his death, but they did not visit him. Even after his passing, the management offered to make arrangements if they came to Sonipat, but they reportedly said they did not have time to travel.
One of Gupta's daughters, Anita, who lives in Nepal and works as a teacher, sent Rs 5,100 online and requested that her father's last rites be performed properly.
The daughters watched the cremation through a video call and later asked the old-age home to send them videos of the funeral. During the call, one of them was heard saying, "How much longer will this take? We have to eat and bathe."
The family had initially asked that Gupta's ashes be kept. They later told the old-age home that they did not have the time to come to Sonipat, and requested the management to immerse the ashes in the Ganga.
- PTC NEWS
