Karnataka Rajyotsava Award recipient environmentalist commits suicide
Davanagere: Nature conservationist and Karnataka Rajyotsava Award recipient Saalumarada Veeraachaar (70) reportedly ended his life by hanging himself from a tree in the middle of the village on Monday night.
Saalumarada Veeraachaar, a popular figure in the state, was known for planting rows of trees and nurturing them in the regions surrounding the Davanagere and Harihara Taluk. Recognizing his efforts to preserve nature and his concern for the environment, the state government honoured him with the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award.
The senior environmentalist is said to have protested several times concerning the matter of the Mitlagatte Nyayabele Angadi. He had demanded that the Nyayabele Angadi should be entrusted to someone else. However, since his demands and requests were not fulfilled in this matter, a disheartened Veeraachaar took the drastic measure of ending his life by suicide, it is learned.
Learning the news of his suicide, the villagers have undertaken a protest. The protesters expressed their extreme anger that the demands of a Rajyotsava Awardee were not fulfilled in this issue. The Tahsildar and senior authorities visited the site and demanded justice.
The deceased is survived by his wife, two daughters, one son, and a legion of friends, relatives, and admirers.
Prominently known as Davanagere’s Mitlagatte Saalumarada Veeraachaar, the elderly nature conservationist has planted more than 3000 trees and raised them. His continuous efforts and service towards preserving nature have brought him hundreds of awards including the Rajyotsava Award.
It is learned that he had been protesting against an injustice happening at Nyayabele Angadi in Mitlagatte and sworn, “If the courts, people, and God do not provide justice, I will surrender myself to the noose.” When he did not receive the expected response in the matter, according to his oath, a disheartened Saalumarada Veeraachaar hung himself from a tree around 2 am on Monday.
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6 killed, 3 injured as two cars collide in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker
Kanker (PTI): Six members of a family were killed and three others seriously injured after two cars collided on National Highway-30 in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Friday.
The accident occurred late Thursday night near Nathia Navagaon village under Kanker Kotwali police station limits, a senior police official said.
Citing preliminary information, he said seven members of the Mandavi family from Udkuda village in the Charama area were returning from a wedding in Chivaraj village when their car collided with a vehicle coming from the opposite direction.
The impact left both vehicles badly mangled.
Six persons, including three women, a child and two men, died on the spot in one car, while another passenger was seriously injured, he said. Two persons in the other car also suffered grievous injuries.
On being alerted about it, Superintendent of Police Nikhil Rakhecha and other police officials rushed to the spot.
The injured were shifted to the Kanker Medical College hospital, he said.
Police said further investigation into the incident is underway.
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