Registration

190. (1) Every owner or person having the control of any place used at the date of the coming into operation of this Act as a place for burying, burning or otherwise disposing of the dead shall, if such place is not already registered apply to the concerned Grama Panchayat to have such place registered. (2) If it appears to such Grama Panchayat that there is no owner or person having the control of such place the Grama Panchayat shall assume such control and register such place or may close it. (3) No dead bodies shall be thrown or buried or burnt or otherwise disposed of at any place other than a registered burial ground.