The veterans, so to speak, among city's civic hospitals are riled up over a notification issued by the state home department, which has named 17 medical colleges in the state where custodial death cases should mandatorily be sent for post-mortem.

Decades-old KEM Hospital's Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College, Nair Hospital's Topiwala National Medical College, and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, which have been conducting medico-legal autopsies, are upset at being deprived of the chance to carry out custodial death post-mortems.