# Mumbai businessman’s daughters attend his last rites in Sonipat by video call 2026-08-06T06:22:19+00:00 | India | Indian Opinion Desk A 74-year-old Mumbai businessman, Shivcharan Ramratan Gupta, was cremated in Sonipat, Haryana, after his daughters asked that the funeral be held there rather than moving the body back to Mumbai, and watched the ceremony over a video call, DNAIndia reported. Gupta, a former cloth merchant, had lived at a Sonipat old-age home for nearly three years, where his wife had also stayed before her death about two years earlier. After his death, the home's management contacted his daughters, who transferred funds online and asked that the cremation proceed in Sonipat, then requested the full ceremony be streamed to them. The home's management said one daughter stayed connected throughout and later asked for a recording of the rites. The family has been asked to collect his ashes before the 20th of the month. ## Indian Opinion Analysis DNAIndia's account has the daughters organising and paying for the cremation from Mumbai, asking that it be held locally in Sonipat rather than moving Gupta's body back, and requesting that the ceremony be streamed and recorded. Those details describe active involvement in the arrangements, even though the report does not explain why Gupta and his late wife had been living at the facility rather than with family. Whether the daughters travel to Sonipat to collect his ashes before the 20th of the month is the detail still to be confirmed. ## Coverage - DNAIndia Tags: Sonipat Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/mumbai-businessman-dies-alone-in-old-age-home-three-daughters-watch-fathers-last-rites-on-video-call/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/mumbai-businessman-dies-alone-in-old-age-home-three-daughters-watch-fathers-last-rites-on-video-call/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.