PLEA IN SC SEEKS PROBE INTO DEATHS

NEW DELHI : A plea was filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday, seeking constitution of a special investigating team headed by a sitting or retired apex court judge to supervise the probe into the death of several persons whose bodies were recently found floating in river Ganga in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The petition has sought directions to the Centre, authorities in states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to conduct post-mortem examination of the bodies which are found floating in river Ganga to ascertain the cause of death.

The plea, filed by advocates Pradeep Kumar Yadav and Vishal Thakre, has claimed that recovery of these decomposed corpses raises serious concern as the river acts as a source of water for many areas and if the bodies were infected by Covid-19, then it might spread in the villages in both the states.

PLEA HAS SOUGHT AUTOPSY OF THE BODIES TO ASCERTAIN THE CAUSE OF DEATH