Overview
- Taking suo motu cognisance, the Haryana Human Rights Commission directed Town & Country Planning, Labour, police, Municipal Corporation Gurugram and other authorities to submit detailed reports.
- Submissions are due at least one week before May 13 and must cover casualties, rescue efforts, permissions and clearances, safety compliance, worker welfare registration, enforcement measures, relief and rehabilitation.
- The HHRC order notes a criminal case has been registered and that the project manager and the site’s structure-in-charge have been arrested.
- Preliminary accounts state a retaining wall at the under-construction sewage treatment plant in Sidhrawali collapsed on March 9, causing a soil cave-in that buried multiple labourers.
- Officials reported six of the deceased were from Jharkhand and one from Rajasthan, with four other workers injured.