In a remarkable case of spiritual mystery and legal action, the Kerala Police conducted the exhumation of Gopan Swami’s body in Neyyattinkara, located in the Thiruvananthapuram district. Gopan Swami, a retired daily wage worker, was believed to have reached
‘Samadhi’—a state where a person is spiritually at peace at the time of death. His family had interred him in a concrete tomb near their home, citing his attainment of spiritual liberation. However, questions arose regarding the actual cause of death, prompting the Kerala High Court to intervene and order the exhumation.