India, Jan. 8 -- Hearing petitions over the deaths and illness caused by the contaminated water supply in Indore's Bhagirathpura area, the Indore Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court directed the Chief Secretary to appear before it through video conference on January 15. The HC termed the response of the State Government and local administration to the crisis as "insensitive", said High Court Bar Association president Ritesh Inani, one of the petitioners.

A Division Bench of Justices Vijay Kumar Shukla and Alok Awasthi was hearing four or five petitions related to the incident, Inani told reporters. "During the proceedings, the High Court termed the response submitted by the Government as insensitive and observed that the incident had not ...