According to the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, taking property dishonestly from the dead body:

Section 315 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (formerly section 404 IPC) specifically punishes dishonest misappropriation of property known to have been in a deceased person’s possession at death, before it comes into the possession of someone legally entitled to it. The taking described is this deceased-person property offence, a form of criminal misappropriation, rather than theft from a living person’s possession. Breach of trust would require entrustment, which is not stated. The knowledge and post-death possession conditions remain essential to section 315, and the maximum punishment is enhanced where the offender was employed by the deceased as a clerk or servant.