(COLOMBO) – The police in Sri Lanka were on Wednesday desperately investigating to trace the legal wife of a man who died in a road accident after four women turned up at the local morgue to claim his body.
The 53-year-old man died in a motorcycle accident on Monday but his body continues to remain stuck in the morgue since each of the four women are claiming to be his wife.
Under local laws the body of the man has to be handed over to his legally wedded wife but in this case it has run into a storm since four women are claiming to be his wife and are in possession of marriage certificates to back up their claim, an investigator said.
“It appears that in this case the man had committed polygamy and had cleverly kept the secret and now it will be up to a court to make the final decision”, he said.
It has also been revealed that the man had residences in several parts of the country.
This bizarre case was reported from the north-western town of Kuliyapitiya located some 82 kilometres from the commercial capital of Colombo.
