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Chhattisgarh: 'Death feast' not up to mark, family ostracised

RAIPUR: A family in Chhattisgarh’s Mungeli district has been ostracised for two years because they didn’t give community members a “proper death feast” after a 20-year-old son in the family was killed in an accident.


Santan Nirmalkar, his wife and five children are barred from buying groceries or any human contact in Ghatoli Para village.

He has been meeting government officials and writing for help, but in vain.

He told TOI that under the ‘protocol’ of a death banquet in their community, he would have had to serve food to every member of every family in the village. “I am too poor to afford this. I served a feast according to my means. The community announced that my family had been ostracised,” he said. “Every day, I have to walk to neighbouring villages to get a daily-wage job . There are the constant threats.”

Mungeli additional SP C D Tirkey said he has received the complaint. “A probe was ordered immediately. Action can be taken in case of extortion of money, threat and beatings,” he said.

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