bhopal civil aviation minister jyotiraditya scindia has reached out to a family in distress and brought back the body of their son from south africa without any chargesdevendra singh parihar 24 a resident of dholpur rajasthan died of cardiac arrest on july 28 in cape town south africa where he was working as a consultant with the agriculture department since 2018family members said that they were given an estimated cost of rs 28 lakh to bring his body to india parihar hailed from a middle class family and his parents couldnt afford the cost the youths relatives in madhya pradeshs bhind and guna called up scindias office seeking his help the union minister deputed two officers to the task and waived the entire cost of flying back the body said sourcesdevendras parents were yearning to see him one last time but couldnt pay the rs 28 lakh needed to bring the body to india another problem was unavailability of flight options due to covid19 when the minister came to know of this he issued orders to help the family by all possible means said an officer with the ministerparihars uncle jitendra tomar lives in guna he contacted a political leader who was closely associated with scindia and word reached the minister after this scindia asked his staff to arrange to bring the body home his staff was in regular touch with the people of guna said the officer parihars body reached delhi airport on wednesday and was taken to dholpur 300km by road where he was cremated