A case under section 304A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 9 of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act has been registered, the official added.
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel expressed grief over the incident and directed the district administration to provide all possible assistance to the family of the victims.
An official of a housing society in Govandi area in Mumbai was arrested in connection with the death of three labourers while cleaning a septic tank in the residential high-rise on Tuesday
Earlier this month, seven people including four sanitation workers died of suffocation while cleaning a hotel’s septic tank in Fartikui village of Gujarat’s Vadodara.
Meanwhile, the Gujarat government has announced financial assistance of Rs 4 lakh each to the kin of the deceased and directed the police to take strict action against the hotel owner.
Three construction workers died on Monday after falling inside a septic tank in a village in West Bengal’s South 24…
Four labourers died on Saturday after they were exposed to the poisonous gas inside a septic tank in Bihar’s Siwan…
