Mistry (54) and his friend Jehangir Pandole were killed on Sunday afternoon when their Mercedes GLC 220d 4MATIC car hit a road divider in the Palghar district of Maharashtra.
ANI | Updated: May 26, 2021 12:39 IST
By Sushil Batra
New Delhi [India], May 26 (ANI): A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been moved in Delhi High Court seeking direction to Delhi Government and Municipal Corporations to immediately repair and rectify the non-functional electric crematoriums and installation of more electric crematoriums in the national capital.
The petitioner, Sunil Kumar Aledia (Social Activist) through Advocate Kamlesh Kumar Mishra also sought direction to the Government of NCT of Delhi as well to the civic agencies operating in the different areas of Delhi to place on their respective websites a list of all the crematoriums and burial grounds in their respective areas so as to make the same available with the general public.
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COVID-19: India crematoriums underreporting bodies as suspicion grows over true number of coronavirus deaths
India has continued to post alarmingly high global record numbers of
coronavirus cases, with more than 300,000 every day for the past week.
But its deaths are still low in comparison to its huge one-billion-plus population (around 190,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic).
We ve visited a number of crematoriums over the past few days - in Delhi, and in Ghaziabad in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh.
In both places we found what appeared to be underreporting of the number of bodies coming into the crematoriums for funerals.
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