PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was pained at the tragedy the place lifeless bodies had been discovered floating in Ganga in the Buxar metropolis in addition to the hurt brought about to the holy river, stated State Water Resources Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha.
Sanjay Kumar Jha, a key aide of the Bihar CM, informed PTI, “He has always been particular about the purity and uninterrupted flow of the river and has asked the administration to intensify patrolling to ensure this is not repeated. Last rites of all the bodies have been performed as per protocols. A net has been placed in the Ganges in Ranighat, bordering UP and Bihar. We have advised the Uttar Pradesh administration to be vigilant. Our administration is keeping vigil, too. Advise all to give respect to the dead and also to Maa Ganga.”
Posting a sequence of tweets, he asserting that the bodies had flown downstream from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh.
“The Bihar government is seized of the matter of unfortunate case of floating mortal remains in river Ganga… The bodies have floated into Bihar from UP,” stated Jha, including, medical doctors have confirmed upon autopsy that the deaths had taken place 4-5 days in the past.
71 lifeless bodies fished out of river Ganga
At least 71 bodies, which had been discovered floating in the river Ganga, had been fished out, stated officers, triggering suspicion that the deserted corpses could possibly be these of COVID-19 sufferers.
A lot of bloated corpses had been seen floating in the river mattress in Chausa block of Buxar district on Monday (May 10), triggering shock waves. Though some information channels claimed these had been of COVID-19 sufferers who may need been deserted by resource-starved members of the family or dumped by callous officers, the native administration had strongly denied the identical, asserting that not one of the deceased was an area resident, and the bodies had flown downstream from adjoining UP districts.
