The NHRC on Wednesday issued notices to the Delhi government and the city police chief over the death of four people in Rohini after they were trapped inside a sewer in Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar area of northwest Delhi. Issuing the notice, the commission expressed concern that despite the law, the Supreme Court’s decision and its own intervention to provide safety equipment to such workers, “poor people are dying while working in sewer lines, which are totally is inappropriate”.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said in a statement that it has “sustained suo motu cognizance of media reports of the death of four persons in a sewage line in Delhi’s Rohini area”. “Reportedly, they were trapped on March 29, 2022, and efforts were on to get them out safely. However, only their bodies could be recovered this morning. Three line employees of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) among the victims And fourth, an auto-rickshaw driver, who went inside the sewage line to rescue them.”
The commission has issued notices to the Chief Secretary of Delhi, the Commissioner of Police and the Chairman of MTNL, seeking a detailed report “within four weeks”, including action against the responsible officers and providing relief or rehabilitation to the next of kin. deceased. According to media reports, the laborers were contractual employees of MTNL and were doing line work after falling into the sewer line on Main Bawana Road. He said he was not wearing any protective gear.
Four people, trapped inside a sewer in North West Delhi’s Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar area, died and their bodies were retrieved after an overnight rescue operation in the early hours of Wednesday, officials said. Police said that three of the four persons were private contractual employees who were working on the lines of MTNL at the time of the incident on Tuesday afternoon. The fourth is a rickshaw puller who tried to save three laborers but that too got stuck in the sewer.
Rescue work was started after Samaypur Badli police station received information about the incident at around 6.30 pm on Tuesday. Apart from the police, officials of the fire department and a team of the National Disaster Response Force were also involved in the rescue effort.
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