JEDDAH — A woman demanded to exhume her deceased son from his grave to relocate him to another cemetery.

A woman filed a lawsuit to the court demanding to change the location of her son’s grave. Her son had passed away a year ago. The woman claimed that her granddaughter and her husband had buried him without consulting her.

The daughter of the deceased said that when her father passed away his corpse was held at the hospital morgue for a week because her grandmother insisted that the deceased’s brother must come to see him before his burial.

The hospital had to call the deceased’s children to notify them that they must take the corpse from the morgue or else the hospital would contact the municipality, which would then take care of the burial.

The daughter, who did not wish to have her father buried by the municipality, followed the required procedure to have her father buried in a cemetery of her choice and she had the paperwork signed by her husband.

The court found the lawsuit to be unreasonable and unprecedented. The court found the burial procedure to be fully legal and deemed the lawsuit to be out of its jurisdiction, while dismissing it completely.