Officials who gave safety certificate to face will face inquiry, says SHRC
The Hindu
Probe also on teachers’ refusal to use their cars to rush the injured to hospital
The State Human Rights Commission, which has suo motu initiated an inquiry into the death of three students of Schaffter Higher Secondary School in a wall collapse, will also take due action against the officials who had issued ‘safety certificates’ to the buildings, SHRC member Durai. Jayachandran has said.
After meeting the families of the deceased here on Friday and visiting the spot where the boys were crushed to death on December 17, he said that the SHRC had sent notice to the Collector and other officials to submit their affidavits detailing the action taken on this accident. While the police had registered a case and arrested the headmistress and the correspondent of the school and the contractor who built the wall without basement, three teachers had been placed under suspension by the management for negligence.