India, May 20 -- A local court in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday rejected a plea filed by the family of the Noida woman found dead at her marital home in Bhopal, requesting a second autopsy.

Advocate Ankur Pandey, representing the family, told news agency PTI: "The application that we moved about second post-mortem, and for the preservation of body, the court did not allow, but they allowed partially, they issued directions to SHO for preservation of body."

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