52-year-old man’s body fished out from Sayajipura pond

Vadodara: After locals who spotted a body floating in a pond opposite Sayajipura water tank, the police and fire brigade fished out the body of a 52-year-old man from Juni Ghadi area on Saturday morning.
“The identity of the person was known from the identity cards found from his pocket and we informed the family members,” said a cop. “The deceased’s son did not want any legal procedure to be done and so we handed them the body without conducting the post-mortem,” the policeman added.
The son told cops that his father, who worked as a newspaper vendor, could have accidentally slipped and fell into the pond.