'How Much Time Will It Take': Daughters Attend Father's Funeral via Video Call; Old-Age Home Performs Last Rites | WATCH

In a heartbreaking incident, three daughters watched their father's last rites over a video call after saying they could not travel to Haryana's Sonipat for his funeral, leaving the cremation to be carried out by an old-age home and residents.

Shivcharan Ram Ratan Gupta, a former textile trader from Mumbai, died at around 3:30 am on Tuesday after a prolonged illness. After informing his daughters, the old-age home management told them arrangements could be made if they wished to attend the funeral. However, they said they did not have the time to travel and instead joined the cremation virtually from Nepal, Uttar Pradesh and Mumbai.

The daughters later requested the old-age home to share videos of the funeral proceedings. During the video call, one of them was heard saying, "How much longer will this take? We have to eat and bath."

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The eldest daughter, Anita, a teacher residing in Nepal, also sent Rs 5,100 online and appealed to the management for conducting proper last rites of her father. Old age home supervisor, Anand Kumar, said the daughters were informed almost 20 days before Shivcharan's death about his bad health, but none of his daughters turned up to visit him.

"Shivcharan had a phone through which he used to talk to his daughters. After he became ill, their calls stopped. We informed them about his condition, but they still could not come," Kumar said.

According to India Today, Shivcharan had been living at the Sonipat old-age home for nearly two years after moving there with his wife, Meena, who died earlier.

The old-age home said Shivcharan had devoted much of his life to raising and educating his three daughters, two of whom later became teachers. His daughters, Anita in Nepal, Nisha in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh and Priya in Mumbai, are all married.

After the cremation, the family initially asked the management to preserve his ashes. They later said they would not be able to travel to Sonipat and requested the old-age home to immerse the ashes in the Ganga on their behalf. In his final act of giving, Shivcharan's eyes were donated after his death in accordance with the family's wishes.