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Team submits report on deaths of construction workers to SHRC

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Two of them died at separate construction sites on June 26 within Hennur police station limits
The fact-find team had demanded a police investigation into the incidents

Bangalore: A group of activists, who conducted a fact-finding inquiry into the death of two construction workers on June 26, have submitted their report to the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission and sought its intervention in ensuring better working conditions at building sites and punishing those responsible for the accidents.

A team of the commission, led by Chairperson Justice S.R. Naik, will visit the sites on Tuesday.

Two deaths had occurred at separate construction sites on June 26 within Hennur police station limits. While Babloo Rai Yadav (26) from Bihar fell from the firth floor while doing plastering work for a building under construction by Sobha Developers, Paramananda (25) from Orissa fell from sixth floor while transporting tin sheets from one floor to another in an apartment being built by Golden Gate Properties Ltd.

Representatives of Peoples Union for Civil Liberties, Karnataka Domestic Workers’ Union, Slum Jagatthu, Janapara Vedike, Samanatha Mahila Vedike, Stree Jagruthi, Human Rights Law Network and Alternative Law Forum said in their joint fact-finding report that they visited the project site, met several workers on the site, representatives of the builders and developers, relatives of the victims and officials of the Labour Department before preparing the report.

The report alleged that safety nets at both the sites were too “flimsy” to protect workers.

The fact-find team had demanded that police should carry out an investigation and file charge-sheet within the stipulated period and ensure punishment to the guilty. It demanded that “just compensation” should be paid to the families of the victims and the injured in accordance with the law.

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