According to informed sources, Delhi Police were keen to have the funeral done before daybreak Sunday, just after the body was flown in, but bowed to the wishes of her family to hold it shortly after sunrise as per Hindu custom.
A chartered Air India flight carrying the young woman's body landed at Indira Gandhi International Airport, after which the body was taken to the woman's house in Mahavir Enclave, near Dwarka, in southwest Delhi.
Police were keen to get the funeral done at around 6-6.30 a.m. to prevent angry crowds from collecting. But the woman's family protested, saying that according to Hindu rites the funeral could not be held before sunrise.
