Chamarajanagar: Son worships mother’s corpse for three months!

Daijiworld Media Network – Chamarajanagar (SP)

Chamarajanagar, Jun 8: You can call it total devotion for mother, or plain eccentricity. A son, who believed that his mother would come back alive, kept her lifeless body in a glass box and performed puja daily, before he was forced to conduct her funeral.

Palani Muniswamy (60) from Palanimedu under Ramapura police station limits of Kollegal taluk in the district has remained a bachelor. He is an ardent devotee of Lord Ayyappa, and is totally dedicated to his mother.

After his mother, Lakshmi, died at the age of 95 three months ago, he built a small shrine behind his home, kept her body in a glass box on a cradle, and began performing puja everyday. He firmly believed that she would come back one day. He reportedly spent about two lac rupees towards the shrine and other arrangements.

The residents of Palanimedu, worried at the fact that the village has not received rain so far, concluded that the rain god was angry at not conducting funeral of a deceased person from the village. They pressurized Muniswamy, but failed to convince him to cremate his mother. They then asked policemen of Ramapura station to interfere.

On Friday June 7, policemen, special tahsildar of Hanur, Srinivas, along with other officials, visited the village, and arranged for shifting of the body of Lakshmi to the nearby graveyard. Muniswamy was hell bent on not allowing the body to be cremated. After all the villagers insisted that because of his wrong deed they were facing shortage of drinking water, he agreed to inter the body. The policemen, after an agreement was reached between villagers and Muniswamy, arranged for digging a grave and burying of the body on Friday night.