After Buxar, bodies now found floating in Ganga in Patna
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B-Town reacts with shock over dead bodies floating in Ganga. Image Source: IANS News
Patna, May 13 : After Bihar s Buxar, several decomposed dead bodies were now found floating in the Ganga near Patna s Gulabi Ghat on Thursday, officials said.
District Magistrate Chandrasheker Singh has directed municipal authorities to retrieve the dead bodies and cremate them properly.
According to eyewitnesses, the majority of the dead bodies are partially burnt. After the emergence of dead bodies in Gulabi Ghat, we have asked police and civil administration to intensify vigil along the river in a bid to ensure no one dumps dead bodies in the waters. We have also asked municipal corporation officers to take out the bodies and cremate them properly, the District Magistrate said.
Two days after the Bihar government fished out 71 dead bodies from the river in Bihar s Buxar district, residents spotted many bodies floating near the Gulabi Ghat in Patna
As several floating dead bodies were found in the river Ganga in Bihar and Uttarpradesh amid the pandemic, West Bengal is on heightened vigil as the river flows into the state next
PIL in SC seeks SIT probe into case of floating corpses in Ganga
By ANI| Posted by Neha | Updated: 13th May 2021 11:24 pm IST Supreme Court of India
New Delhi: A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday sought direction for setting up a Special Investigating Agency to supervise the probe into around 100 corpses found floating in the river Ganga in Bihar’s Buxar and Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao and Ghazipur districts.
The petition filed by two lawyers Pradeep Yadav and Vishal Thakre sought direction to constitute an SIT directing the respondent authorities to conduct postmortems of the dead bodies which were found floating in the river Ganga in Buxar, Ghazipur and Unnao districts respectively.
Express News Service
LUCKNOW: After dead bodies were seen floating in river Ganga in East Uttar Pradesh districts, shallow graves have been reported on the banks of the sacred river in the central parts of the state since the last few days. Meanwhile, the Yogi Adityanath government maintains that the
COVID-19 cases and positivity rate in the state is declining fast.
Just a few days after dozens of dead bodies found floating on the banks of river Ganga in eastern districts of Ghazipur, Ballia and Chandauli, at least seven bodies (five males and two females) were found floating near Sujabad village in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency Varanasi on Thursday.