Rajasthan’s Covid death discrepancies
The obit pages and cremation grounds paint a much more severe picture of virus-related deaths than the official figures
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UPDATED: May 5, 2021 22:57 IST
Family members, wearing protective suits, perform the last rites of a person who died of Covid, at Adarsh Nagar Moksha Dham in Jaipur, April 20 (PTI)
On Tuesday, May 4, Chandrakala, 30, the youngest daughter of Dwaraka Prasad Sharda who died of Covid-19 in Barmer, jumped into his burning pyre. Extremely attached to her father, she had been running around trying to save him. She and her two sisters had accompanied the body to the cremation ground. Chandra was burnt critically before she was pulled out by the shocked people in the area. She has been rushed to a hospital in Jodhpur. In another similar tragic incident, on May 2, a Covid-infected aged couple in Kota jumped before a running train and killed themselves. Hira Lal Bairwa, 75, and his wife Shanti Bai, 70, could not
Rajasthan: To save family, elderly couple who tested COVID-19 positive commit suicide
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The ever-increasing number of Covid-19 cases and mismanagement in the hospitals is now affecting the mental health of the people. In a shocking incident, an elderly couple committed suicide in Kota, Rajasthan on Sunday.
The couple had tested positive for COVID-19 and took this extreme step to save the family especially their grandson. Their dead bodies were recovered from a railway track near Chambal River. The train driver informed the railway police about the incident. Police performed the last rites of both the bodies according to the COVID-19 guidelines.
Farmer ends life at his field in Vikarabad
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A 49-year-old farmer was found dead at his agricultural field in Hankya Naik tanda in Basheerabad mandal of Vikarabad district on Saturday.
Basheerabad police said Rathod Gopal died after consuming pesticide as his crops got damaged due to excess rainfall this year. He is survived by wife Shanti Bai and three sons.
In his 12-acre agricultural field, Gopal cultivated cotton in five acres, paddy in four acres and pulses in three acres. He also borrowed ₹ 3 lakh loan from State Bank of India Basheerabad for investment on the crop in mid 2020. “Due to crop damage he was pushed into losses and could not repay the loan on time; as a result he got upset and resorted to the extreme step,” police said.