Daijiworld Media Network-Bengaluru (RJP)

Bengaluru, Jul 6: Women in Chitradurga, Koppal, Ballari and Raichur were gripped in panic in the early hours of Wednesday, July 5 as rumours spread that the red beads in their mangalsutras could start speaking any time and that would claim the lives of their husbands.

Soon after that, women were seen making calls to relatives and friends asking what to do next. They wasted no time in breaking the two red beads in their mangalsutras.

Several such incidents were reported in the border areas of Molkalmur taluk in Chitradurga district, at Madakaripura on the outskirts of Chitradurga and also in the city.

Panic-stricken women in the villages of Hungund and Bagalkot taluks in Bagalkot district were also see breaking red beads in their mangalsutras.

The office of Women and Child Development Minister Umashree in Bengaluru directed the department’s principal secretary to immediately hold a meeting with the deputy commissioners and take appropriate action against those responsible for spreading such rumours.