Bengaluru: Karnataka state government is planning to form new law to take severe legal action against the land owners who fail to close their dead borewells in the state, said Karnataka state Panchayatraj and Rural Development Minister HK Patil speaking on Belagavi tragedy where a 6 year old girl fell into a dead borewell on Saturday. The proposed law allow the concerned authorities to serious action against the land owners who found irresponsible in closing the dead tubewell properly.
The state government has extended all its support to the members of the family of the girl to rescue her from the dead tubewell in which she found struck for the last 38 hours, the minister said. In the current case, the borewell owner himself is responsible for the tragedy, he added.
