Residents fill water for his or her family wants from tankers within the Bhagirathpura space of Madhya Pradesh’s Indore. File | Photograph Credit score: The Hindu
An inquiry fee fashioned to analyze the deaths because of a diarrhea outbreak brought on by government-supplied water contamination has issued a public discover asking individuals to submit any proof and paperwork associated to the incident.
As per an official launch, the panel headed by former State Excessive Court docket decide Justice Sushil Kumar Gupta has been fashioned to probe the tragedy that has claimed a number of lives in Indore’s Bhagirathpura space in December final yr and January this yr.
“As per the order of the Hon’ble Madhya Pradesh Excessive Court docket, an Inquiry Fee has been constituted below the chairmanship of Justice Sushil Kumar Gupta, former Decide of the Madhya Pradesh Excessive Court docket, to analyze the consuming water contamination within the Bhagirathpura space of Indore and its ensuing influence on public well being and different affected areas,” the discharge stated.
The panel has been tasked with investigating the causes of water air pollution, administrative negligence, motion towards accountable people, lack of life, medical results, and remedial measures.
“On this regard, the Fee has issued a public discover requesting all affected residents, relations, public representatives, medical doctors, hospitals, social organizations, contractors, authorities officers, or some other individual having info, information, or proof associated to this case, reminiscent of complaints or functions associated to consuming water contamination, medical information, hospital admission slips, discharge summaries, loss of life certificates, pictures/movies associated to water pipeline leaks, sewage mixing or injury, tender paperwork. associated to water provide, work orders, inspection stories, or some other report or materials related to the investigation to its workplace by February 28,” the assertion stated.
The tragedy had come to mild on December 29 final yr and has impacted greater than 3,000 individuals thus far. Whereas an audit report of presidency medical doctors has pegged the loss of life toll at 15, the native stories say no less than 33 individuals have thus far died within the tragedy.
Revealed – February 10, 2026 04:07 am IST