The Kerala High Court has dismissed the appeal filed by Asha Lawrence, challenging the decision to hand over her father, MM Lawrence's body, to Kalamassery Medical College. A Division Bench of the High Court delivered the verdict. Earlier, the Single Bench had also rejected the petition the daughters Sujatha and Asha filed. The Division Bench, consisting of Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice S Manu, delivered the verdict on Wednesday, December 18. Asha Lawrence had argued that the Single Bench had misinterpreted the Kerala Anatomy Act. 

Following Lawrence's death on September 21, Asha Lawrence approached the Kerala High Court to prevent her father's body from being handed over to the Medical College. She argued that her father had never expressed a wish to donate his body and requested that it be buried according to Christian rites instead.

Lawrence, a prominent CPM veteran, passed away at the age of 95.