A 58-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh spent nearly three years officially “dead" due to a clerical error that the administration is only now moving to correct.

Saroj Devi, a resident of Chamar Nagaria village in Khair tehsil of Uttar Pradesh, lost her husband Jagdish Prasad in 2020.

In 2022, she approached local authorities to obtain his death certificate. Instead, on January 1, 2022, officials recorded her death and issued a certificate declaring her deceased.

The mistake triggered a chain of consequences.

Her Aadhaar was deactivated, and she was shut out of essential services linked to identity verification.

According to her account, she spent the next several years moving from one government office to another, trying to prove she was alive and begging officials to correct the error.

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