NEW DELHI: Is cremation as per the lifeless individual’s faith and accompanying rituals a elementary proper of his kin? The query got here up when a mom informed Supreme Courtroom that her son, who had died at Sharjah (UAE) the place he was working as a carpenter, was cremated on overseas soil by the authorities there together with his members of the family being denied the appropriate to carry out the final rites.A resident of Basti in UP, 57-year-old Savitri knowledgeable SC that her 29-year-old son Pankaj, who was working with World Star Firm, Sharjah, for the final two years, had gone incommunicado since Dec 2. She then lodged a grievance with Basti police on Jan 10. On Feb 4, she obtained a name from the Indian Embassy in Dubai informing her about Pankaj’s demise and his cremation there. Showing for her, senior advocate Sanjay M Nuli informed a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta that as a mom she was entitled to make sure her son was given an honest cremation. “Cremation is among the Sanskars, that’s Antim Sanskar — an vital ritual which couldn’t have been compromised with in any method or state of affairs and denying the mom her proper quantities to gross violation of elementary and human rights as enshrined below Articles 21 and 25 of the Structure,” Nuli mentioned. The bench issued discover to the Union govt and sought its response by March 16.