Farmers of the Damodarahalli panchayat in Pochampalli submitted a petition to the District Collector seeking desilting, removal of encroachments from Sadinayakanpatty lake and revive its storage capacity.

According to the farmers, the lake’s tank has been rendered to disuse because of encroachments and siltation. The tank’s storage capacity was completely reduced despite it being a significant source of irrigation for the farmlands abutting the lake. The farmers have demanded complete desilting of the lake and its channels, deepening of the channels, repairing the shutters, strengthening the embankments, and enabling increased water storage capacity of the tank.

According to the farmers, desilting will increase the storage capacity, remove encroachments, help augment water table for the surrounding farm lands.

Farmers also pointed out that silting of the lake will benefit farmers in need of fertile silt to improve their soil nutrition.

Among the main demands of the farmers was also a plea for a new canal for channelling KRP dam waters to Sadinayakanpatty lake. According to the farmers, if the water from KRP dam is channelled to the Sadinayakanpatty lake twice a year, it will help fill the lake.

Charred remains of two men were found on the Krishnagiri to Rayakottai road in Alapatty panchayat in Krishnagiri district on Monday (May 11, 2026). The bodies of the two victims aged around mid-30s, were found half a kilometre apart near Vepalampatty. .

The victims are suspected to have been murdered, their bodies set ablaze and the charred remains were wrapped in a blanket and thrown at the scene. The second body was found half-a-kilometre from the site of the first body, similarly murdered and mutilated by burns and wrapped in a blanket before being discarded.

A team led by Superintendent of Police P. Thangadurai, and Deputy Inspector General of Police, Salem, Santhosh Hadimani inspected the site where the bodies were found.

Five special teams have been formed to investigate the murders.