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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Kerala did virtually nothing for Endosulfan victims for 5 years: SC -Krishnadas Rajagopal

Kerala did virtually nothing for Endosulfan victims for 5 years: SC -Krishnadas Rajagopal

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published Published on May 16, 2022   modified Modified on May 17, 2022

-The Hindu

The delay in compensation is appalling and the inaction is in breach of court orders, says Bench

The Supreme Court has slammed the Kerala government for doing “virtually nothing” for Endosulfan pesticide exposure victims. The court said the State’s inaction was “appalling” and amounted to a breach of the apex court’s 2017 judgment, which had ordered the State to pay 5 lakh each to the victims in three months.

Five years since the judgment, the court has realised that only eight out of 3,704 victims have been paid compensation.

Of the 3,704 victims, 102 are bedridden, 326 mentally challenged, 201 are physically disabled, 119 wrecked by cancer while 2,966 others fall in the residual category.

“The Government of Kerala has done virtually nothing for five years. Besides the fact that the delay is appalling, the inaction is in breach of the orders of this court,” a Bench led by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud observed sharply in its order in a contempt petition.

The court noted that though the State government had, in January 2022, authorised the disbursal of an additional 200 crore, so far only eight victims have got 5 lakh each out of the allotted money. These eight happen to be the victims who had sought contempt action against the State in the Supreme Court. All these years, the State seemed to have ignored others like them, voiceless, faceless and too poor to approach the apex court, but nevertheless maimed for life by the toxin.

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The Hindu, 16 May, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala-did-virtually-nothing-for-endosulfan-victims-for-5-years-sc/article65420193.ece?homepage=true


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