Kabaka: Muslim youth perform last rites of Hindu woman
Puttur, June 16: As the family members and locals did not come forward to perform the last rites of Bhavani (52), an unmarried of Vidyapura in Kabaka who died of heart attack on Saturday, a group of Muslim youth performed the last rites with all religious rituals. This humane act has got appreciation from all corners.
When Bhavani died of heart attack, her brother Krishna informed his relatives and local residents about the incident and appealed them to cooperate for the last rites. But none of his relatives and neighbours turned up to cremate the body. As a result, her brother Krishna had to keep the body at home till afternoon.
Noticing the news, Vidyapura residents Shoukath, Hamza, Nazeer, Riyaz, Farooq and others collected the money to be paid to the graveyard. When no family members and Hindu women came forward to wash the body of Bhavani, the process was completed with the help of Anganwadi worker Rajeshwari, Bhavani’s sister and locals Safiya and Zubaida. Later, the body was taken to the Puttur graveyard in ambulance by paying Rs 3500 and performed the last rites.
Speaking to Varthabharati, Farooq said that “We have considered any religious affiliation while performing the last rites. We Muslim youth conducted the last rites of a Hindu woman and it was not our motive to get publicity out of it. Such incidents should not happen in future. We see such incidents in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan in media. But it is unfortunate that such incident happened in our village. It is painful that those who supposed to do their work did not do that. Here we have many Hindu organizations which behave like they adopted the Hindus. But they did not turn up. Kabaka gram panchayat president who is backed by BJP did not visit the house and it is sad”, he said.
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Puttur: Child injured as ambulance meets with accident
Puttur: A child being transported from Sullia to Mangaluru for medical treatment was injured in a road accident late Monday night at Mura, in Puttur taluk.
The child, who had been born at Sullia Hospital and was en route to Mangaluru Hospital for treatment due to breathing difficulties, was inside an ambulance when a pickup truck traveling from the opposite direction collided with it. Both the child and the ambulance driver sustained minor injuries in the accident.
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Following the incident, the child and the family were immediately transferred to another vehicle and sent to Mangaluru for further treatment.
