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Villagers' attempt to cremate body on road thwarted
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Koppal: Koppal: Tension prevailed in Mangalapur village of Koppal taluk on Monday after residents began preparations to cremate the body of a woman on the main road, citing the lack of a designated graveyard in the village.
However, taluk administration officials intervened and brought the situation under control.
The absence of a graveyard has been worrying the members of the Hindu community in Mangalapur village for the last many years.
Veerappa Ganigeri, a resident of Mangalapur, said people belonging to a particular community have their own graveyard in the village, but they do not. "It is really painful that we have to struggle to get a piece of land to bury or cremate the body whenever there is a death in the village.
We have been facing this ordeal for many years. We requested and petitioned the district administration several times, seeking land for the burial ground, but our demands remain unfulfilled," he said.
"Earlier, we used to request other farmers in the village to allow us to perform rituals near their fields. We used to conduct rituals on the side of Hirehalla stream, but now the road leading to the stream is blocked and encroached upon by some farmers, which is preventing us from conducting burials here," he said.
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On Sunday evening, Savitremma, 80, died due to illness, and the residents decided to conduct the final rites in the middle of the road in the village.
Koppal tahsildar Vithal Chougala told TOI that when villagers made preparations to cremate the body in the middle of the road on Monday morning, officials, police, and others rushed to the spot. "Tension prevailed for some time, but we succeeded in convincing the villagers to drop the idea of conducting rituals in the middle of the road," the official said.
Later, the villagers, officials and police went to the Hirehalla streamside, where they found that some farmers had encroached upon the govt land. They removed all hurdles and cleared the road leading to the stream. On their request, villagers finally conducted the final rites on the side of the stream. "We have requested villagers to perform rituals in this place until new arrangements are made," the tahsildar said.
The officials failed to identify land when they started the land acquisition process for a burial ground facility, as no farmer was ready to sell their land. "We will send a fresh proposal and restart the land acquisition process for a burial ground facility in the village," he said.
