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Only 420 FIRs for 920 sewer deaths in three decades, says activist -Shiv Sahay Singh

-The Hindu

'FIR has to be mandatorily filed'

Kolkata: Almost 420 first information reports ( FIRs) have been lodged in connection with around 920 deaths inside sewers in the country between 1993 and January 31, 2020, as per the data tabled in the Lok Sabha by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The numbers, given in response to a question by Chandra Prakash Joshi, also show a huge disparity in the number of deaths and the registering of FIRs among States.

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