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The Haryana Human Rights Commission has rapped the civic authorities for a "lackadaisical approach" successful investigating the decease of 2 radical successful a septic vessel past twelvemonth successful Hansi.
The Commission said that their attack reflected a superior usurpation of the close to beingness and dignity nether Article 21 of the Constitution, and contravenes the Supreme Court's directive prohibiting manual sewer introduction without information gear.
The HHRC had taken a suo motu cognisance of the deaths of 2 workers successful Hansi successful Haryana, who allegedly died aft being forced to participate a hotel's septic vessel without protective gear.
According to a December 17, 2025, order, passed by the afloat Commission comprising Chairperson Justice Lalit Batra and members Kuldip Jain and Deep Bhatia, specified incidents proceed unabated, contempt wide directions by the Supreme Court successful the Safai Karamchari Andolan vs Union of India case.
The Bench said it would not let the substance to beryllium brushed speech and would guarantee that the accountability of the culprits is firmly fixed.
An FIR successful the substance was filed connected October 19, 2025.
The HHRC, aft examining the study submitted by the Hansi Superintendent of Police, recovered that the probe had not progressed astatine the expected pace.
The Commission recovered the study "conspicuously silent" connected fixation of responsibility, contempt the territory attorney's assertion that a cognizable offence was prima facie made out.
"The nonaccomplishment to enactment decisively successful pursuance of the said ineligible sentiment reflects a lackadaisical attack connected the portion of the Investigating Agency successful a substance involving nonaccomplishment of quality lives and sedate usurpation of quality rights," the Commission observed successful its order.
With these observations, the Commission directed the Investigating Officer and the Hansi Deputy Superintendent of Police (Crime) to look earlier it successful idiosyncratic with the lawsuit records.
It directed that the Deputy Commissioner indispensable taxable a elaborate study wrong six weeks connected the alleviation and compensation paid oregon sanctioned to the families of the workers, immoderate interim assistance provided, and the measures projected for the rehabilitation of the dependents.
It ordered the municipal assembly oregon the gram panchayat of Rampura colony to taxable a study wrong six weeks connected the circumstances of the incident, licensing and inspection of the edifice premises, and violations, if any, of the Prohibition of Employment arsenic Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act, 2013.
The Commission ordered the Superintendent of Police to show the probe and taxable an enactment taken study to it a week earlier January 15, the adjacent day of hearing.
It besides flagged that the edifice absorption failed to taxable its compliance study connected suspension of manual introduction into septic/sewer tanks without information gear, availability of information gear, measures connected state testing, rescue, oxygen cylinders, oxygen masks and mechanisation, and asked to record the study wrong six weeks.
