surat burial or cremation this is the conflict surrounding death of a man who had converted into islam after entering into a relationship with a muslim woman bharat thakkar who even changed his name to siraj shaikh after marrying a muslim woman died in a road accident near kadodara cross roads on national highway 8 on tuesday night thakkar who was engaged in transport business was knocked down by a vehicle when he was crossing the road after parking his truck thakkars first wife had left him after giving birth to two children boy rajan and ruchita she went abroad after marrying some other person he had married this girl from bardoli as per his familys wishes in 2007 he came on contact with fatema who had also separated from her husband they got married and and started living together along with their children bharat changed his and his childrens religion through an affidavit claims fatema bharat became siraj while ruchita was named afrin and rajan was named sohel the entire issue of performing the last rites began when his body was taken for postmortem while his parents claimed that the final rites should be performed as per hindu rituals fatema was adamant that since he had converted to islam his body should be buried thakkar also got afrin 20 married to a muslim youth while sohel 19 helped him in the transport business till my husband died no one from his parents came to ask about him but after his death they are claiming the body i want his body and he should be buried as per the muslim rituals as he had converted to islam through an affidavit said fatema relatives and other community leaders from city and bardoli supported fatemas claim to get the body and approached police jayaben thakkar the deceaseds mother said after his wife left him bharat wanted to marry the girl from other religion and we did not oppose now since he is dead we being his parents have the right to decide what should be done with his body we want to perform his list rights as per the hindu rituals following the dispute police refused to hand over the body to either family and said that that only the court would decide the issue the body will not be given to any family and court will decide after listening to both the parties said s c tarde circle police inspector palsana