Overview

• Sunil Kumar Prajapati, a 45-year-old vegetable vendor, was killed when municipal workers dumped sewer sludge on him while he was sleeping under a tree in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh.
• The dumping occurred at an unauthorized site near a graveyard during a city-wide drain-cleaning operation, raising concerns about civic negligence.
• Police have filed a case of causing death by negligence against contractor Nayim Shastri and are investigating to identify the employees directly involved.
• Municipal officials have launched a departmental inquiry, with the postmortem report still pending to guide further legal actions.
• The victim’s family alleges deliberate wrongdoing and conspiracy, intensifying scrutiny of the municipal corporation’s waste management practices.