Kolkata, Nov. 22 -- The Calcutta High Court has directed the West Bengal government and state-run Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to pay a compensation of Rs 30 lakh each to the families of the four workers, who died of asphyxiation while manually cleaning a manhole in south Kolkata in 2021.
A division bench of Calcutta High Court, comprising Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Chaitali Chatterjee Das, also mandated a payment of Rs 5 lakh each to the injured workers in the mishap, stipulating that compensation be disbursed within three months to the families of the deceased and within two months to the injured.
The division bench, while delivering its judgment on Friday in response to a Public Interest Litigation filed by the ...