Buxar (Bihar) [India], May 16 (ANI): After several bodies were found floating in Ganga in Buxar district, Bihar police have stepped up vigil along the banks of the river.
A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court to constitute a special investigation team (SIT) to conduct the investigation into over 100 corpses, found floating in the Ganga river in Bihar s Buxar, and Uttar Pradesh s Ghazipur and Unnao districts, amid the ongoing second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. The plea, filed by lawyers Pradeep Yadav and Vishal Thakre, urged the top court to issue direction the state government cconcerned to conduct post-mortem of the dead bodies. The act of the states is inhuman as they failed to provide facilities for decent burial/cremation of dead bodies and to keep a check on pollution of the holy river, Ganga, by such indecent act either of individuals or of authorities, the petition said.
931 Bodies buried in the sand on the banks of Ganga river, as coronavirus cases surge in Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh on May 13, 2021. PTI photo
Mukesh Ranjan
New Delhi, May 14
Taking note of the dead bodies being washed up along the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar, the West Bengal government has asked officials in the Malda district, where the river enters the state, to keep a strict vigil at the river’s entry point.
In the meantime, district authorities in UP and Bihar too have been put on high alert to prevent a repeat of such incidents after a nudging by the National Mission for Clean Ganga and a notice issued by National Human Rights Commission to the two states after dead bodies were found floating in the Ganges.
Plea in SC seeking probe into recovery of bodies from Ganga
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B-Town reacts with shock over dead bodies floating in Ganga Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 14 : A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court to constitute a special investigation team (SIT) to conduct the investigation into over 100 corpses, found floating in the Ganga river in Bihar s Buxar, and Uttar Pradesh s Ghazipur and Unnao districts, amid the ongoing second wave of Covid-19 pandemic.
The plea, filed by lawyers Pradeep Yadav and Vishal Thakre, urged the top court to issue direction the state government cconcerned to conduct post-mortem of the dead bodies.