Davangere: Suspecting fidelity, husband kills wife
Davangere, Sept 14: Suspecting the fidelity, a person killed his wife with iron rod at Matti village in the taluk on Friday.
The victim is identified as Savithramma (30). The accused is identified as Beerappa. The victim was in her parents house for the last four months and on Friday morning, she came to her husband’s home. At this time, Beerappa engaged in quarrelling with his wife and beat on her head with iron rod. Seriously injured Savithramma died on the spot, it is said.
It is said that Beerappa has been quarrelling with his wife suspecting her fidelity. Upset over her husband’s attitude, she has approached Women Counselling Centre. Based on the advice from the centre, she had been to her parents’ house and was staying there. She has a daughter studying in 3rd standard and as she required Aadhar card of her daughter, she came to her husband’s house. At this time, both of them engaged in verbal duals. Irked by his wife’s attitude, Beerappa beat her up with the iron rod and killed her, it is said.
The ASP, DySP and CPI visited the spot. Hadadi police who registered a case arrested the accused.
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K’taka to launch special drive for drinking water tests in gram panchayats amid rising temperatures
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Bengaluru: As summer intensifies across Karnataka, the state government is preparing to initiate a special campaign to test drinking water across the state.
A directive is expected to be issued to all chief executive officers of zilla panchayats, instructing gram panchayats within their jurisdictions to conduct water quality tests, as reported by The New Indian Express on Thursday.
Karnataka has around 6,000 gram panchayats and their staff have been trained to conduct field tests. They check the water quality for 12 parameters, including potential of hydrogen (PH), chloride, fluoride, iron, nitrate, alkalinity, residual chlorine, and total dissolved solids. The hydrogen sulfide test is also conducted to check the presence of bacteria.
The testing has been made mandatory after several drinking water contamination cases have been reported over the years across the state, added the report.
Anjum Parvez, Additional Chief Secretary for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, said that water quality testing is routinely mandated twice a year—once before and once after the monsoon season.
“During pre-monsoon, groundwater level goes down and the quality of water has to be checked. Post monsoon, the flow of water is more, and the threat of contamination is not high, but even then water is tested. Potable drinking water is our priority,’’ TNIE report quoted Parvez as saying.
He also noted that panchayat development officers and engineers regularly inspect water supply pipelines for leakages.
The state government has taken disciplinary action in past cases involving supply of contaminated water and is now conducting special campaigns to prevent such incidents.
