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Local village council chief Rita Devi said she was writing a letter to the district administration authorities, to arrange for land for cremating the dead.

Cremating a non-viable foetus, stillborn baby or infant with an unrelated person will become a criminal offence.

"During preliminary investigation, local residents informed that instead of cremating the bodies of unmarried girls they are set adrift in the Ganga river," the IG said.

None of them noticed that they were cremating the wrong body," said a police officer.

Funeral directors were also hours from cremating the second body, which should have been buried.

The 29-year-old now spends her days digging up dead cats and cremating guinea pigs.