Bombay HC awards ₹10 lakh each to widows of three manual scavengers
The Hindu
Court directs District Collector to provide compensation within four weeks
The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the Maharashtra government to pay ₹10 lakh each as compensation to the widows of three manual scavengers who died while cleaning a septic tank in a housing society in Govandi on December 23, 2019.
A Division Bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Madhav Jamdar was hearing a petition filed by Vimla Govind Chorotiya, Neeta Santosh Kalshekar, and Bani Vishwajit Debnath. The Bench said the case was an “eye-opener” and directed the office of the District Collector to provide a compensation of ₹10 lakh each to the three women within four weeks.
Advocate Isha Singh, appearing for the petitioners, argued that though the deaths occurred as a consequence of a private housing society employing the men as manual scavengers, the State was strictly liable and responsible for providing compensation to the families. She said the burden of eradicating manual scavenging in accordance with Article 17 of the Constitution (abolition of untouchability) was on the government.
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