Death
She was found dead in her Mumbai apartment on 22 January 2005 after her residential society secretary alerted the police that she had not collected milk and newspapers from her doorstep for three days. The police suspected that she may have been dead up to 72 hours before her body was found. The cause of her death was not immediately known. She was found to have gangrene of the foot as a complication of her diabetic condition. Her Post mortem was conducted at Cooper Hospital and reports showed that there were no traces of food in her stomach but some alcohol (possibly from her medication) was found and it might be possible that she had not consumed anything for more than three days and sadly starved to death. The police ruled out any foul play and it was determined she succumbed due to all organ failure
Parveen Babi converted to Christianity during the last years of her life as she claimed in an interview and was baptised in a Protestant Anglican Church at Malabar Hill and expressed a desire to be buried as per Christian rites but her relatives who were Muslims claimed her body after her tragic death and buried her as per Islamic rites. Hence Babi was buried next to her mother at Santacruz, Mumbai on 23 January 2005.
After Parveen babi’s death, chaos were created, when various distant relatives filed petition in honourable high court regarding the will of her property which had been lying in the locker of a Junagadh bank, operated jointly by the late actor and her friend Murad but nevertheless Babi’s will was settled of which 70 per cent of her property was to be put in a trust to be created in her name to help poor members of the Babi family, 20 per cent has been pledged to Murad Khan Babi, for being "a guiding force", while 10 per cent was to be given to Christian missionary Funds.
Five years later, due to scarcity of land space for burial, Parveen Babi's grave along with other luminous Bollywood celebrities such as Mohammed Rafi, Madhubala, Sahir Ludhianvi, Talat Mahmood, Naushad who were interred at Santa Cruz Muslim Cemetery were desecreted and their remains were disposed off to provide space for new dead ones.
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