Sans Burial Space, Dalit Family Performs Kin's Last Rites on Tumkur Roadside
News 18A Dalit family in Karnataka’s Tumkur district on Tuesday was forced to bury the deceased father on the roadside because of the absence of a graveyard in the area. The incident took place in the district’s Durgadahalli district when Timmarajura’s 65-year-old father, Peddaiah, died to an age-related illness, following which the family performed his last rites without any dedicated burial ground in the village, a Hindustan Times report said. Giving clarification on the absence of a graveyard, Tumkuru Tehsildar M Siddesh told HT that the allegation is false, adding that “there are two graveyards in the village, but villagers are not coming to make use of them.” The said that the two burial grounds are located in Durgadahalli in survey numbers four and 83. Last year, a Dalit family was allegedly stopped by some people from performing the last rites of a relative on an elevated platform at a cremation ground in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna. In the video footage of the incident, a person was purportedly heard saying that the family was not allowed to use the cremation ground’s platform for the last rites.
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