Click to play videoChandigarh: The water shortage in most of the parts of India has now moved from being an agricultural crisis to becoming a social issue.
In first of its kind of case in 80 years in Jajunpur village in Haryana, a TV mechanic Karn Singh was brutally killed by his neighbour after they got into an argument on taking water from this public borewell.
Karn's wife Kusum is still in a daze.
“The fight was over filling water. First they had a fight with my brother-in-law and when my husband came home, they killed him,” says Kusum.
The villagers usually fill water from the borewell, when power is supplied for an hour everyday. On Friday when Karn's brother went to get water he found that the accused, Naresh had illegally attached a pipe to the borewell.
“They didn’t let my brother fill water even for drinking purpose,” says Karn’s brother Rajesh.
An argument ensued and later in the night Naresh and eight other men attacked Karn's house.
“There was a fight over water which intensified and led to the killing of one person. We have registered a case and are investigating,” says SHO Dhand Police Station Jagbir Singh.
The missing monsoon has left Haryana parched, the fields are dry and Karn's murder highlights how the scarcity is bringing out the worst in people.
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