Police officers search after useless our bodies had been found in close by districts of Ganges River.
A plea was Thursday filed in the Supreme Court in search of structure of a particular investigating workforce headed by a sitting or retired apex court docket decide to oversee the probe into the dying of a number of individuals whose our bodies had been just lately found floating in river Ganga in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
The petition has sought instructions to the Centre, authorities in states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to conduct autopsy of the our bodies that are found floating in river Ganga to establish the reason for dying.
The plea, filed by advocates Pradeep Kumar Yadav and Vishal Thakre, has claimed that restoration of those decomposed corpses raises difficulty of great concern because the river acts as a supply of water for a lot of areas and if the our bodies had been contaminated by COVID-19, then it would unfold in the villages in each the states.
“The act of the states is in-human as the states have failed to provide facilities for decent burial/cremation of dead bodies and have also failed to keep a check that holy river Ganga should not have been polluted by such an inhumane and indecent act either of individual or of states itself,” the plea has alleged.
It claimed that governments of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are operating away from the duty and as an alternative of discovering out as to how these useless our bodies had been dumped into the river, a “blame game” has begun between them and due to this fact there’s a want of structure of SIT headed by a sitting or retired decide of the apex court docket to oversee the probe into the dying.
The plea alleged that about 100 our bodies had been found floating in river Ganga out of which 71 had been fished out at Bihar’s Buxar district whereas such our bodies had been additionally found in Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Union Jal Shakti Ministry, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, after receiving complaints about a number of our bodies found floating in the Ganga river in the 2 states.
“It (NHRC) has issued notices to the chief secretaries of both the states and the secretary, Union Ministry of Jal Shakti, today calling for action taken report within four weeks,” its assertion famous.
