Tumakuru: Long demand delayed for separate funeral land for Dalit in Byrenahalli from Taluk Koratagae in Tumakuru Regency caused tension as a family of a dead man burying his body on government land on Thursday, claiming they did not have anywhere else to bury him.
This caused a clash between Dalit and the top of the caste, with the latter threatening to cancel the body and the grieving family sitting on a surprise in the cemetery to prevent it.
On Wednesday, T Hanumantharayappa, 57, died in Byrenahalli.
The Dalit family did not have their own land to bury it, so they told the village elders to give them a place to bury it.
Dalit colonies in byrenahalli consist of 100 families, 90 of them do not have land.
Hanumantharayappa Lakshmikantha’s nephew BS said: “We used to bury our neighbors and our relatives on the edge of Jalan NH-234.
But the elders were not ready to bury Hanumantharayappa there, so we asked for village authorities to provide other places for us.
When they don’t, we don’t Burying the body on government land in the survey no.
1, but the top caste people try to stop us.
“Tahsildar Nahida Zam Zam told Tii,” I visited the Public Funeral Ground and told the Dalit family to bury the body in 20 Guntas Cleaned.
If there are objects, they have to take it to the notification and I will handle it.
” However, the leader of Dalit, Venkatesh Murthy, said that Tahsildar wants them to bury the body in the top of the top caste burglary, and if they do it will only cause clashes.