Kodagu disaster: A pall of gloom descends on marriages, festivals
Madikeri, August 22: The disaster that shook the people of the district has now affected the marriages and festivals. The life was thrown out of gear in most part of the district. People are worried about their future as they have lost everything.
However, those who are in safe place compared to the distressed people, have no interest in celebrating the festivals or conducting the marriages. Because of this worst ever disaster, some of the marriage programmes were postponed.
In Kodagu district, the marriage programmes would start soon after the completion of the Ati month. As per this, the marriages were fixed after August 15. Now, majority of the marriages were postponed and parents have been sending messages to their relatives.
Many of the families have given advertisements in the Madikeri Radio about the postponement of the marriage programmes. Many engagements were also postponed.
The election scheduled for Agriculture Credit Cooperative Society was also postponed. Many general body meetings of the associations were also postponed. Following the disaster, the election to be held for Virajpete, Somawarpete, and Kushalnagar town panchayats on August 29 were also postponed.
In Madikeri and Somawarpete, the Ganesh festival committees have decided to celebrate the festival in a simple manner. The disaster shadow cast on major festival of Kodagu, Kail, to be held on September 3.
Villagers of Mukkodlu, Makkandur, Kalur and other villages who were in preparation for the festival, have lost everything and they are not in a position to celebrate any festival. If their shattered life is improved with the planned decisions and executions, then they could celebrate the festivals.
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J'khand: 4 minors detained for 'raping' girl at birthday party
Ranchi (PTI): Four minors were detained for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl at a birthday party in Jharkhand’s Ranchi, police said on Saturday.
The incident took place on March 31 within the Namkum police station limits. An FIR in this regard was lodged on April 16 based on the girl’s statement, they said.
“All five, including the victim, were friends, and the girl had gone to attend the birthday party of one of those detained. At the party, the accused consumed alcohol and allegedly raped her,” said Ramnarayan Singh, the officer in-charge of Namkum police station.
“The four, aged between 15 and 17 years, have been detained and the medical examination of the girl is underway,” Singh said.
Further investigation is underway.
