JUDGMENT :-

(Prayer: Writ petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, for the issuance of Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, calling for the records connected with the impugned order HDC/C.No.2043/24.4.2020 dated 24.04.2020 issued by the 4th respondent, quash the same and direct the 4th respondent to make necessary arrangements to exhume the body of Dr.Simon Hercules Hercules and bury the same at Kilpauk Cemetry.)

The death of a husband or wife is well recognized as an emotionally devastating event, being ranked on life event scales as the most stressful of all possible losses. The intensity and persistence of the pain associated with this type of bereavement is thought to be due to the emotional valence of marital bonds linking husbands and wives to each other. Spouses are co-managers of home and family, companions, sexual partners and fellow members of larger social units. Although the strength of particular linkages may vary from one marriage to another, all marriages seem to contain each of these linkages to some extent.

2. The death of a spouse ends the relationship but does not sever all relational bonds. The sense of being connected to the lost figure persists,