State Act
Section 417. Burials within places of wor-ship and exhu-mations not to be made without permission of Mukhya Nagar Adhikari
THE UTTAR PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1959
417- (1) No person shall, without the written permission of the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari under sub-section (2)- [(a) make any vault 01 grave or interment within any wall of any place of worship or underneath any passage, porch, portico, plinth or verandah of any such place;]1 (b) make any internment or otherwise dispose of any corpse in any place which is closed for the dead under section 415; (c) build, dig, or cause to be built or dug any grave or vault, or in any way dispose of or suffer or permit to be disposed of, any corpse at any place which is not registered in the register kept under section 412; (d) exhume any body, except under the provisions of section 176 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, or of any other law for the time being in force from any place for the disposal of the dead. (2) The Mukhya Nagar Adhikari may in special cases grant permission for any of the purposes aforesaid, subject to such general or special orders as the State Government may from time to time make in this behalf.