5-year-old boy injured during house demolition
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A five-year-old boy, recognized as Naga Chaitanya sustained head accidents and was rushed to RDT Hospital at Bathallapalli in a grave situation when a crew led by the Dharmavaram Revenue Divisional Officer tried to demolish homes at Marrimakulapalli in Tadimarri mandal of Anantapur district on Friday afternoon.
Marrimakulapalli is one in every of 4 villages getting inundated within the district with the federal government deciding to retailer 9.5 tmcft of water within the Chitravathi Balancing Reservoir on the Anantapur-Kadapa district border. Around 180 oustees have been agitating for compensation for his or her homes that they have been going to lose, and didn’t permit anybody to enter the village until late Friday afternoon.
At midday, the Revenue Divisional Officer and the Mandal Revenue Officer pacified the agitating youth and informed them that they’d take the problem to the discover of the upper officers and {that a} decision can be executed by Monday. Following their assurance, folks had their lunch on the entrance of the village and left for his or her homes.
Later within the afternoon, the Revenue officers allegedly got here again with an earthmover and demolished the partitions of one of many homes, which led to the injury of adjoining house during which the five-year-old boy was having lunch. The boy sustained a grave head harm and was shifted to hospital within the Revenue Department car.
The villagers instantly broken the JCB and chased away the police and Revenue officers, and threatened to organise a mass sit-in in entrance of the Tadimarri Mandal Revenue Office on Monday if the problem was not resolved by then as the homes have been getting slowly inundated within the backwaters of the Chitravathi Balancing Reservoir. The agitating youth additionally threatened to raise the gates of the reservoir and launch water if the officers didn’t reply in time.
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