SHRC seeks info on workers’ bodies

The State Human Rights Commission has directed the ministry of external affairs to submit a report by December 14 on the status of bringing the bodies of five Telangana workers killed in a fire in Abu Dhabi on October 19.

Their family members submitted a petition to the commission.

The victims were Pitla Naresh, 25, from Kamareddy, Malavath Prakash Naik, 29, from Nirma, G. Akhilesh, 22, from Nirmal, Bairi Gangaraju, 20, from Nirmal and Tota Rakesh, 32, from Nizamabad. They were engaged by Gulf Dunes Landscaping & Agricultural Services Company in Abu Dhabi.

Family members of the victims said that even after completion of 44 days and the Telangana government giving assurances about bringing back their bodies there is not much progress in the issue.

Industries and NRI affairs minister K.T. Rama Rao also issued a statement saying that the state government will take steps to help the kin of victims who died in Abu Dhabi fire accident and bring back their bodies.

Prakash Naik had returned to India after working for around two years, said his brother Subash Naik. “But as the financial situation at home was still the same and there was drought in the area, he went to work again for some more time, but lost his life in this tragedy,” he said.

Family members of other victims also have similar stories of suffering and are waiting for the bodies of their beloved ones.

Eleven other workers were also killed in the accident that occurred while they were sleeping.