Published on : 05 Nov 2025, 11:45 am 3 min read

The Madras High Court recently ordered the exhumation of bodies buried at a private plot attached to a Christian church after finding that the burial license was issued in undue haste and in violation of certain legal requirements [ Stellar Developer v. The Commissioner, Greater Chennai Corporation and ors ]

Justice N Mala ordered the plot's landowner, one S Albert Kings Bell (part of a CSI Church), to either ensure the exhumation is done himself or to bear costs for the State authorities to exhume the bodies.

" The 5th respondent (S Albert Kings Bell/ Church's representative) shall exhume the bodies, failing which the respondents 1 and 2 (Greater Chennai Corporation and its Deputy Director of Health) with aid of the 4 th re

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