“After almost three days of the rescue operation, we weren’t able to save Kaveri. The police are looking out for the landowner who had left the borewell open. Justice will be served for the child,” said Belgavi’s deputy commissioner N Jayaram to The News Minute. He further added that the team worked tirelessly day and night to rescue her and hoped her to be alive every time they dug a little closer to her.
“The government will give compensation to the family but no matter how much money is given, it will not be equivalent to the life of a little innocent girl,” he said. According to reports, she died of asphyxiation before she was pulled out. She was playing with her friends when she slipped, fell and got stuck in the borewell.
Rescue officials had been trying to rescue her from Sunday and had tried building tunnels. She was also being supplied with oxygen. Many attempts were also made to pull her out of the well with a hook but nothing worked. In an interview with The News Minute, Kaveri’s uncle Sadashiva said that he wanted all open borewells in the area to be identified and capped so that no one else’s family would have to go through what they did.
While the borewell owner Shankarappa has absconded and the police are looking out for him. A case of criminal negligence has been filed against Shankarappa.
