Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Apr 20: The bodies of two boys, which had been buried after they lost their lives due to drowning in River Netravati, were exhumed on Tuesday April 20 in the presence of assistant commissioner, Prabhulinga Kavalikatti. The boys had lost their lives due to drowning at Valachchil in the taluk on Sunday.
The parents of Mohammed Shaukat (11), son of Abdul Latif (Halemane) from Valachchil, and Mohammed Hanif (10), son of Hamza from Pandavarakallu in Badaga Kajekar village in Bantwal taluk, had performed the funeral of the boys on Sunday night itself, without filing any formal report with the policemen. The police personnel of the rural police station here, who visited the village after coming to know of the incident, had made enquiries and registered cases against the parents for performing final rites without informing the policemen about these unnatural deaths.
When the assistant commissioner along with the rural policemen visited the spot for exhuming the bodies on Tuesday, over 300 persons, who had gathered there, stoutly objected to the procedure, claiming that disinterring of bodies after funeral was against the tenets of Islam. MLA, U T Khader, who visited the spot, and the policemen convinced them to cooperate with the concerned, as otherwise it would give rise to legal problems.
After the bodies were exhumed from their graves in Valachcchil mosque on Tuesday, post mortem was conducted on the spot, and the bodies were handed over to the parents.