Guwahati: Even as an ill-fated woman Guwahati fell prey to the flash
flood in the city after a spell of rain on Thursday night, Assam Human
Rights Commission (AHRC) has asked the state government to pay a
compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the family of Binoy Mohan Das who faced
the same fate two years back.
Das, the then Superintendent of Kamrup Treasury, fell into an
unguarded drain as he was walking along the footpath after a spell of
rain which submerged the city on October 21 in 2011 at the R.G.B Road,
in Guwahati.
A Division Bench of the Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
comprising its Chairperson, Justice Dr. Aftab H. Saikia and Member,
Tarun Phookan, by its order dated 08.05.2013 passed in AHRC Case
No.238/24/11-12 recommended to the Government of Assam to pay
compensation of Rs.10 lakh within three months to the next of kin of
late Binoy Mohan Das.
Ajay Hazarika, Chief coordinator, Consumers’ Legal Protection Forum
(CLPF), Guwahati, filed a complaint before the Commission in that behalf
and the Commission after taking up the case directed the Guwahati
Municipal Corporation (GMC) and the APWD (Roads) Guwahati City,
Division-I, to separately enquire into the said fatal incident and
submit their respective reports. The reports were accordingly submitted
in due course and after considering the same the Division Bench passed
the order of the recommendation. The State Government was given liberty
to realize the compensatory amount in equal proportion from those two
Departments fixing responsibilities in that regard upon their respective
officials/staff concern.
Another middle aged lady Basanti Devi, who originally hails from
Bihar, stepped on a live electric wire as drain water submerged the Anil
Nagar area in the city after a spell of rain on Thursday evening.
