Ap farmer drowned at the Pullur check dam in Keelpallathur village bordering Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and onlookers instead of trying to raise and alarm and trying to save him, resorted to taking videos of the same. The 45-year-old farmer Sreenivasan was captured in a camera which shows the man struggling to swim and pleading for help. Unable to fight the strong water current he was subsequently dragged away. fell off the dam in an inebriated condition in presence of several people, including Andhra Pradesh police officials. Andhra police and rescue teams are trying to locate the man's body.

 

The Andhra Government had recently increased the height of the Pullur check dam by 12 feet. However, the farmers in Tamil Nadu, particularly those in the upper Palar region, fare apprehensive that this move would prevent water flow into their dry beds in Vellore district. Consequently, the farmers in this region have been talking about protest for the rise in the dam water level. This isn't the first time something like this happened where the bystanders instead of helping were taking the videos of the shocking incident.