The body of R. Jaganathan of Kalipalayam, who was run over by a truck belonging to a stone quarry, allegedly for exposing its illegal functioning, was cremated at an electric crematorium at Palamapuram here on Wednesday amid tight security.
After securing the signature of Revathy, the wife of the murdered activist, the police, accompanied by a few relatives of the deceased, took the body from the mortuary and transported it directly to the crematorium in the evening.