Teenage girl who had fasted for 68 days in a Jain religious attempt succumbs
By trying to emitate an ancient Jain religious Jain culture a thirtenn year old girl had succumbed havinf fasted for 68 days.She had succumbed after her body had become lifeless.This unfortunate incident is reported from Southern
Hhyderabad in India.According to the reports the teenage girl had been forced to perform this mythical visual fast by her parents.After the jewelry business of her father had gone bankrupt a poo sari of his temple had advised for a child in the family should engage in the "Chathurmas" fast once more luck would come to regain prosperity.
It had been told as a custom of Jain religion the 13 year old school girl had been provoked by the parents to perform the fast by keeping her in a hot water basin.
Before completion of her scheduled period of the fast she had become lifeless collapsed and died.
The girl by name Aradana Lukshmichandi.At the postmortem the parents had said she had been fasting for 68 days.But the doctors had said that it cannot true and in this connection the parents have been taken into custody.