Family lived with dead relative in their house for ten months because they thought it would keep ghosts away

Now what would you say this report that an Indian family lived with dead relative in their house for ten months because they thought it would keep ghosts away. As per a report:

A superstitious family kept the body of a dead relative in their house for ten months to keep spirits out. Three members of the same family were found living with the highly-decomposed body of a female relative in their house in Nagercoil, India. After a neighbour complained about the foul smell from the house in Ramavarma Puram, police found the body of 56-year-old Umadevi covered with a bedspread in one of the rooms. She had died on December 3, 2012.

The son of the deceased, her mother and her brother, were admitted to a government hospital as it was suspected they may have an infection and psychological disorder, Hindustan Times reports. Police said Umadevi's mother Sarojini, her son Sivaraman and her brother Sellampillai had always kept their house locked and did not speak to neighbours. 

They had been living on the family pension of Sarojini's husband Subramaniam Pillai. As Sarojini did not appear for a renewal of life certificate, they did not get the pension in recent months. Police originally suspected the body had been kept in the house because they couldn't afford to pay for a cremation but then officers suspected they may be unwell.

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