MUMBAI: A family that refused to bury their son for 11 days since his death and prayed in the hope of a “resurrection“ has finally, nudged by the police, agreed to inter him on Tuesday afternoon.Meshach, 17, who was undergoing treatment for cancer in a city hospital, died on October 26. His father, Octavio Nevis, the founder of a religious group who claims to have miraculous healing powers, began prayers, instead of conducting the last rites. Jesus will bring his son back to life, he said.Pravin More, event manager at the Nagpada Neighbourhood House , the headquarters of Nevis' Jesus For All Nations Ministry, said Meshach was declared “dead“ two years ago too. “His father began performing prayers and the boy rose again,“ he claimed.The boy's embalmed body was kept in their church, which stands opposite the Nagpada police station, and prayers continued for over a week.The news finally reached the police. “They would perform prayers during the day and leave the body at Neighbourhood house, lock it and go home,“ said the officer.When the police intervened, the family took the body to their church in Ambernath, again located next to a police station, on Sunday . And the prayers started. Alerted, the Ambernath police, along with health department officials of the municipal council, visited the church and found 250 people in prayer as the body lay in an ice box. The police firmly asked the family to perform the last rites or else they would be booked under the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and Other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013.The family requested that they be allowed to go to Nagpada to perform the last rites. “After the family took the body to Nagpada, we intimated the police there and asked that a case be filed there since the body had been kept for over a week,“ said ACP Sunil Patil, Amber nath division.The Nagpada police have now got it in writing that the family will carry out the last rites on Tuesday . Senior officials said they have not filed any case and are monitoring the situation. The incident has upset a few.“This is false practice and we did not support such things. As if people can be brought alive by performing prayer, then no one would die,“ said the priest of another Ambernath church. But a source close to Nevis asked, “The family has not taken the law into its hand and not harmed anyone. Then why are the police pressuring them? When the father has faith, what's the law and order problem?“