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  • NHRC issues notices to Haryana govt, Gurugram municipality over sewer death

    NHRC issues notices to Haryana govt, Gurugram municipality over sewer death

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    New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to the Haryana government, the Gurugram Police and the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram after the decomposed body of a man was pulled out from an open sewer.

    Taking suo motu cognisance of a media report, the commission said it is issuing the notices “over the reported death of the man after falling into a open sewer in Gurugram”.

    The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said Badshahpur police personnel received information on April 20 that foul smell was coming out from an open sewer manhole near the Vatika Chowk area on Sohna Road. When a police team reached there, they spotted a body inside the sewer, it said.

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    The decomposed body was taken out by a fire brigade team from the 10-feet-deep sewer, it said and added that a laptop bag, a mobile phone and a power bank were also recovered.

    Reportedly, the documents in the bag suggested that he belonged to Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, the commission said.

    SHO Badshahpur police station Inspector Madan Lal had said, “The body was decomposed. Laptop bag was found in the hand of the deceased. Apart from a laptop, a mobile and a power bank have been found in it.”

    “According to a document found in the laptop bag, the deceased may be about 30 years old Dinesh Kumar, a resident of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, but it is not appropriate to say this before identification. We kept the body in the mortuary and tried to identify it,” he had said.

    The NHRC has issued notices to the Haryana chief secretary, the Gurugram Commissioner of Police and the Commissioner, Gurugram Municipal Corporation, calling for a detailed report in the matter, including action taken against the guilty after a thorough enquiry into the matter, within four weeks.

    The commission has also sought details about the compensation granted to the next of kin of the deceased and the steps taken or proposed to be taken to ensure that such unfortunate incidents do not recur and precious human lives are not lost in the future.

    The report must contain the status of the investigation being conducted by the police as well as the department concerned, in the matter, it said.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Morbi bridge collapse: Municipality seeks docs seized by SIT to reply to Gujarat govt’s notice

    Morbi bridge collapse: Municipality seeks docs seized by SIT to reply to Gujarat govt’s notice

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    Morbi: The Morbi municipality has appealed to the Gujarat government to return documents seized by a special investigation team (SIT) probing the collapse of a bridge in the town so it could respond to the government’s show-cause notice asking why the civic body should not be dissolved over the tragedy, which claimed 135 lives.

    All the documents are with the government-appointed SIT and the Morbi municipality does not have any document, an official from the civic body has said.

    The British-era suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in Morbi collapsed on October 30, 2022. The Gujarat government last week issued a show-cause notice to the Morbi municipality asking why it should not be dissolved for failing to discharge its duties.

    In the notice, the state Urban Development Department directed the civic body to submit a written clarification in the form of a general body resolution by January 25.

    The bridge was maintained and operated by the Oreva Group as per an agreement signed with the Morbi municipality.
    The 52-member Morbi municipality held a meeting on Monday and passed a resolution urging the government to return documents seized by the (government-appointed) SIT so it could respond to the government’s show-cause notice, the civic body’s vice president, Jayrajsinh Jadeja, told reporters after the meeting.

    All the 52 elected representatives of the Morbi Municipality are from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is in power in the state.

    “Since all the documents are with the SIT and the Morbi municipality does not have any document, the municipality passed a resolution urging the government to return them as soon as possible so that it could reply to its notice,” Jadeja said.

    In the notice, the Urban Development Department said the previous contract to operate the bridge expired in 2017.

    Between 2018 and 2020, the Oreva Group had written several letters to the Morbi municipality warning about the dilapidated condition of the bridge and also cautioned that a serious accident may occur if the bridge remains open to the public in such a condition.

    However, the civic body did not take cognizance of such warnings by the company, the notice said.

    Moreover, the municipality did not take any concrete action to take over the bridge from the company in 2017 after the completion of the contract and remained inactive despite knowing the situation of the bridge, it said.

    Notably, the state government had on December 13 told the Gujarat High Court, which took cognisance of the tragedy on its own and registered a public interest litigation (PIL), that it had decided to dissolve the municipality. The court had turned down the plea of the civic body members to be impleaded as a party in the case.

    Nine persons, including four employees of Ajanta Manufacturing (Oreva Group), have been arrested so far in the case.
    They include two managers and as many ticket booking clerks of the Oreva Group that was managing the British-era bridge.

    The SIT had cited several lapses on part of the Oreva Group in repairs, maintenance and operation of the carriageway.
    A Gujarat court last week also issued an arrest warrant against Jaysukh Patel, managing director of the Oreva Group, after getting an application for the same from police under section 70 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

    Patel, who is not named as an accused in the FIR, had moved the Morbi sessions court on January 20 for anticipatory bail fearing arrest in the bridge collapse case. The hearing was adjourned till February 1 as the public prosecutor was not present.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )