State liable to pay compensation in manual scavenging deaths even if labourers were employed by private individuals: Bombay High Court
The Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court has held the State liable to pay ₹30 lakh as compensation to the families of two labourers who died while cleaning a septic tank at a private residence in Nanded district in 2021. A division bench of Justices Nitin Suryawanshi and Vaishali Patil-Jadhav ruled that the State’s…