Two days after a 68-year-old lady’s corpse, partially eaten by stray canine, was present in north Karnataka’s Ganagapur village, which homes the well-known Sri Dattatreya temple, the authorities on Tuesday stated they might guarantee such a “shameful incident” doesn’t happen once more.
The Sri Dattatreya temple in Kalaburagi district’s Afzalpur taluk is frequented by devotees from Maharashtra, Telangana and Karnataka, and sometimes, many devotees abandon their aged mother and father right here, police sources stated. The police suspect that this lady was equally deserted.
On Tuesday, Girish Dilip Badole, deputy commissioner of Kalaburagi district, held a gathering and directed officers to examine the city and supply all obligatory primary services. “It’s a shameful incident and we’ll guarantee that it’ll by no means happen once more. I’ve deployed officers to be stationed on the village,” Badole instructed the media. The district administration additionally directed that consciousness needs to be created concerning the state-run previous age house in Kalaburagi.
On Saturday, the 68-year-old lady, who was suspected to be mentally unstable, was deserted close to Dyamavva Temple close to Gangapur Sangam, police sources stated. The girl died a number of hours later however her physique went unnoticed for hours till Sunday morning, by which period, it had been partially eaten by stray canine.
“Whereas there isn’t any particular spiritual context to this, households abandon their previous mother and father because the individuals who come to Sri Dattatreya temple normally present meals and different issues for the deserted. The destitute keep on temple premises situated in and across the space. We suspect that this lady was additionally deserted,” a police official stated.
Officers from the Division for Empowerment of In a different way Abled and Senior Residents approached the police to file a grievance to search out the girl’s guardians and to know who deserted her close to the temple.
Sri Dattatreya temple was within the information in June this 12 months after some monks created pretend web sites within the identify of the temple to siphon donation cash. A police probe had revealed the monks created about eight web sites with names reminiscent of Dattatreya Devalay, Ganagapur Dattatreya temple, Shri Kshethra Dattatreya temple and so on. Over the previous 4 years, the monks accepted charges and donations to the tune of Rs 20 crore, all of which had been allegedly diverted to their private financial institution accounts.