Daijiworld Media Network – Chikkamagaluru (EP) 

Chikkamagaluru, Nov 4: A young girl who had gone with her father for passport verification to go abroad fell on road because of a pothole and died. 

Sindhooja(23) the deceased girl is from Tipu Nagar in Chikkamagaluru. She had passed her engineering and obtained a job offer abroad. She had applied for passport and was going for its verification along with her father on the bike when the incident happened. 

They did not notice a large pothole on the road near Dandaramakki. The bike got down into it and lost balance. Sindhooja fell down and suffered serious injuries especially on the head. Though she was admitted to the hospital at Hassan, she died without responding to treatment. 

The father of the deceased has lodged a complaint in traffic police station that his daughter died due to damaged road. Several organizations protested blocking the highway after the death of the girl. People have vented anger in social networks against officials for not having closed the potholes.