Padubidri: “Don’t need compensation cheque. I want my younger sister. Bring her back..!” pleaded the child Nisha with the district commissioner.

All those who had come to give support to the deceased family were shocked to her the words uttered by the vehemently weeping Nisha who lost younger sister Nidhi to the force of the flowing flood water while returning back from the school on Tuesday.

Udupi DC visited the house of Nidhi and as she was handing over the cheque of 4 lakh rupees compensation from the natural calamity fund to Umesh Acharya, father of the deceased, when Nisha, who survived from drowning in the flowing water started weeping bitterly. Remembering their daughter, the mother Asha Acharya, Umesh were inconsolably sad which also melted the district commissioner’s heart.