Banni festivities continue despite ban; several injured
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The ritual was banned owing to the pandemic.
More than 40 individuals had been injured throughout a ritual attached to the Banni Utsavam on Vijaya Dasami midnight at Devaragattu village within the Adoni Mandal of Kurnool district and 7 folks sustained critical accidents.
Thousands of devotees converged on the Mala Malleshwara Swamy Temple premises to witness the ceremonial procession of the deities, previous midnight within the gentle of domestically ready torches, and to participate within the age-old ritual of getting maintain of the deities after a literal battle with sticks connected with steel rings.
The district police had made elaborate preparations to maintain folks away from the ritual, which, yearly leaves tens of individuals injured. Some have died prior to now on account of extreme bleeding earlier than they might be given medical help.
Despite the ban, broadly publicised in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, folks took half within the festivities, unfazed by the CCTV cameras and 15 check-posts put in for preserving folks away from the place of the festivities, on the border with Karnataka.
By midnight, the group was past the management of the police as devotees, in two totally different teams, tried to pay money for the ceremonial deities. District officers from the Medical and Health division, deployed within the villages round, handled the injured instantly.
While the variety of folks converging on the premises of the Devaragattu temple got here down, the ritual, nor the resultant accidents might be stopped.
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