According to the report of information company PTI, the identify of that woman was Chundamma, whose members of the family had been seen wrapping the body in a sheet and taking it in an auto. After this, large demonstrations came about in the state on Monday (16 December 2024).
The household had waited for hours for an ambulance from the Tribal Development Office to take the body to the crematorium. According to a Times of India report, members of the Congress-led United Democratic Front demonstrated outdoors the Tribal Development Office in Mananthavady to protest towards the incident.
After the protest, the administration has assured to take motion towards these accountable in this matter. The household waited for the ambulance until 4 pm and had been then left with no possibility however to take the body in an auto to the cremation floor, 3.5 km away.
Edwaka gram panchayat president Ahmed Kutty additionally claimed that the division stored locals in the darkish in regards to the availability of ambulances, due to which they had been unable to make various preparations.
This is not the primary incident in the tribal space, the place due to lack of ambulance one has been pressured to take such motion. In September, two individuals in Karnataka’s Tumkur district had been reportedly pressured to take their ailing 80-year-old father to hospital after they had been unable to get an ambulance.
Published at : 17 Dec 2024 02:04 PM (IST)
