patiala a prtc conductor who had been missing after a flash flood in manali on july 9 was presumed to be dead on saturday after it became clear that the body identified by his family a day ago was not his said an official of the state transporter and a functionary of its workers unionthough the family tried to bring the body to punjab on friday evening officials in himachal pradesh did not let it happen after a family from rajasthan identified the body to be that of a relative the development came on a day prtcpunbus contractual employees union ended its dayold blockade of the bathindachandigarh highway near patiala bus stand which had been called to demand higher compensation for family of the bus driver who was accompanying the missing conductor and who died in the same flash flood the union had demanded a rs 1crore compensation each and a job for a family member of the bus driver and conductor on saturday prtc increased its offer from rs 175 lakh to rs 25 lakh apart from the job after which the union ended the protest the bodies were in bad shape family members of conductor jasbir singh of samana had wrongly claimed someone elses body presuming it to be of jasbir due to some face and age similarities but on the way officials in mandi informed them that a family from rajasthan claimed the body to be that of their family member a verification was done and the body was found to be of a man from rajasthan who had come to travel in himachal said harkesh kumar patiala president of the unionon friday the union had placed the body of bus driver satgur singh at the bus stand in patiala and shut down all nine depots of prtc we ended our protest after the administration announced a rs 25lakh compensation and a job to the kin of the deceased driver and the conductor said kumarthe prtc bus with which satgur and jasbir were attached went missing in manali on july 9 after it was allegedly washed away in the flash flood while being parked in the parking area of the himachal citys bus stand by thursday the drivers body was found in the beas river near mandi both the driver and conductor of the bus were allegedly sleeping inside the bus when it was washed away at nightprtc chairman ranjodh singh hadana said the bus and its conductor were still missing on friday the family wrongly identified someone elses body as that of jasbir our team of inspectors have again gone to manali to identify jasbirs body from the mortuary the condition of bodies there is deteriorating and many unclaimed bodies are said to have been cremated he said