BELAGAVI: Only days after an FIR was registered more than individuals gathering in enormous quantities to attend to the funeral of a horse at Maradi village, even Belagavi district police have booked a temple priest to get arranging villagers to forfeit 21 hens to ward Covid-19.
Nagappa Kattikar, also a priest of Karisiddappa shrinewho’d led devotees from Alaknur village, Raibag taluk, to slaughter the sheep into placate the’grama devate’ (indigenous goddess), that can be a reflection of goddess Durga.
Every one of those sheep prices around Rs 17,000.
A movie of him delivering that the directive was shared on social networking.
Harugeri authorities have filed a case against Kattikar according to a complaint filed by Soujanaya Prabhakar, a panchayat growth officer.
Even the”directive” premiered four days past when some older individuals approached Kattikar, seeking divine intervention to eliminate Covid-19.
The village has observed approximately 15 fatalities.
Kumar Nayak, a neighborhood, said when the request has been created Kattikar started”talking” by Karisiddappa, the local deity, searching for an answer.
“He requested the deity in the event the village needed to sacrifice cattle,” Nayak said.
“When he inquired for the 17th time, the sacred leaves (bilvapatra) tied round the trunk of this deity idol dropped to the floor.
Following that, he also ordered the forfeit of 21 sheep” Nayak said villagers have consented to forfeit the rebellion following the lockdown is raised.
Soujanya Prabhakar said she filed the complaint after she watched the movie.
“Lots of people had gathered in the temple in breach of lockdown principles, thus a complaint was registered,” Prabhakar said.
To ward off Soldier, priest at Karnataka Requests to Forfeit 21 sheep
