BANGALORE: In an interesting development with regards to controversial ‘adda pallakki utsav’ at Jewargi taluk in Gulbarga district, the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has issued a direction to the state chief secretary for taking appropriate steps/measures as per law, apart from filing a report/response in six weeks time. The adda pallakki utsav, wherein the seer of Rambhapuri mutt is carried around in a palanquin is scheduled to be performed on October 14.
One T Narasimha Murthy, a social activist from Bangalore in his complaint before the SHRC, has stated that the old ritual wherein human beings carry a human being is an inhuman and uncivilized practice .He had sought for a ban on the practice.
The commission will take up the matter again on October 20. It may be recalled that the issue had generated much heat in the last two weeks or so with the seers supporting as well as opposing the said ritual approaching the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah with their grievances.
Those in favour the ritual had even conducted a sit-in agitation before the Chief Minister’s residence/home office last week.
