Since Thursday evening, Mr Jignesh and his family have been doing the rounds of the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, trying to find details of his 22-year-old niece - one of the 242 passengers that died in an Air India plane crash earlier that day.

Former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was among the victims whose DNA was matched at around 11:10 am, and his body was handed over to his family at 1 am. The need to match victims' DNA arose after many bodies were charred beyond recognition in Thursday's crash.

The death toll in the deadly Air India plane crash rose to 270 on Saturday, with families increasingly getting upset due to delays in handing over bodies which were badly charred in the tragedy in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.