New Delhi: In a shocking case reported from a village in Uttar Pradesh, a woman who was very much alive was reportedly declared dead on paper. The bureaucratic error which was made almost 3 years back, was finally corrected in November 2025. The woman lost out on several government benefits owing to this bizarre error. The woman had to run from pillar to post to get this error rectified. Woman applied for husband 's death certificate, officials issued her certificate According to a PTI report, the woman had applied for her husband 's death certificate, after he passed away in 2022. But the officials instead issued the death certificate in her name, Saroja Devi. The error was recorded on January 1,2022. Immediately after that the woman 's problems compounded. Her Aadhar was deactivated, so the basic services tied to identity verification became inaccessible to her, like her bank account, ration and such other services stopped. The woman, identified as Saroj Devi, faced a...
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- Updated on: Nov 17, 2025 | 10:13 PM