The controversy erupted earlier this week after videos showing bulldozers at the iconic cremation ground went viral on social media, triggering protests by some local groups.

Sachin and his wife, Shweta, had a heated argument after he found two young men from the neighbourhood with her at his home, and strangled her to death.

An eight-year-old boy found himself alone at a hospital as he arranged the postmortem examination of his mother, who died of HIV-related infection, until local police stepped in to help him with legal formalities and the last rites.