NHRC notices to Principal Secretary, Power, UP Government, DM and SP, Gautam Budh Nagar over electrocution of two linemen (20.1.2015)
PRESS RELEASE
New Delhi, 20th January, 2015
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that two linemen were charred to death on the 11th January, 2015 as the high tension line, they were working on, suddenly went live. Deceased Mohammad Hassan and Saddam Hussain, the two linemen were part of a group of eight, working simultaneously in different parts of the same high tension line in Sector 10 of NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh. Six of them had finished work while the remaining two were about to windup their job when the line became live.
The Commission has observed that the contents of the media report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights of the victims. Accordingly, notices have been issued to the Principal Secretary, Department of Power, Government of Uttar Pradesh, District Magistrate and Superintendent of Gautam Budh Nagar calling for reports within two weeks.
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New Delhi, 20th January, 2015
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that two linemen were charred to death on the 11th January, 2015 as the high tension line, they were working on, suddenly went live. Deceased Mohammad Hassan and Saddam Hussain, the two linemen were part of a group of eight, working simultaneously in different parts of the same high tension line in Sector 10 of NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh. Six of them had finished work while the remaining two were about to windup their job when the line became live.
The Commission has observed that the contents of the media report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights of the victims. Accordingly, notices have been issued to the Principal Secretary, Department of Power, Government of Uttar Pradesh, District Magistrate and Superintendent of Gautam Budh Nagar calling for reports within two weeks.
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