Shanmughanathan, a Munnar resident, lost two sons in the landslide. The body of one son has not yet been recovered
IDUKKI: Even as the Pettimudy landslide, which claimed 66 lives, turns one year old on August 6, the kin of the four missing people are yet to receive their death certificates. The four persons are missing and were included in the list of dead people. But the government has not yet issued a civil death order and the compensation is pending. Despite several appeals, the relatives have not received the death certificates from the concerned authorities.
The major landslide at Pettimudy under Kannan Devan Hills Plantation (KDHP) in Munnar on last August 6 claimed the lives of 70 members of worker families living in three estate layams (cluster of workers’ quarters). A month-long rescue operation could not trace the bodies of Dineshkumar, 22, Kasthuri, 26, Priyadarshini, 7, and Karthika, 21.