India, Sept. 30 -- For four years, the body of an 80-year-old man lay inside a temperature-controlled freezer at a Malad clinic - while his family quietly explored the possibility of sending him to the US to be preserved indefinitely.

The incident came to light only after residents tipped off the Kurar police on Monday night. When officers reached the polyclinic, they found the elderly man's corpse inside a freezer. The clinic had itself remained shut for about a month for renovation.

What has left the police baffled is that the man died of natural causes in 2022, according to documents produced by his family, and his body had allegedly been preserved ever since because his children were unable to come to terms with his death.

The fami...