Legal Status and Rights of a Dead Person
As per current scenario in India there is no specific statutory law in India for specifically made for the rights of the dead. There are some judgements,customary laws,partial provisions in other statutes and basic principles for upholding the dignity and protecting the Rights of the Dead Person. As a dead person is incapable of executing any of his rights or obligations as he/she would have done when alive, the only option to do it is through a valid law. Currently from the last rites as per once religious beliefs to execution of a will all are governed by customary law, but case becomes complicated when person dies as unidentified or intestate. Moreover the problems dealing with right to reputation and organ transplants e.t.c. After a while due to land shortage the old burial sites are destroyed or reused after some years, I will also be inspecting validity of such orders by government. Also I will discuss the alternative stands taken by jurists as to conferring legal statu...