Bid to trace boyfriend’s remains fails

Conflicting claims over lost ashes

An urgent High Court application brought earlier this month by a woman to compel the Clare Estate Umgeni Hindu Crematorium to release the ashes of a businessman, and issue a certificate confirming that he was cremated in April 2020 has been unsuccesfull.

Nesneen Ahmed, 38, of Newlands West, who had applied to the Pietermaritzburg High Court, said the basis for the application was to “finalise prayers and scatter the ashes” of her partner Ha San Kazi, 26.

But the Clare Estate Umgeni Hindu Crematorium, represented by