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Chiefs of Municipal Corporations, Gram Panchayats will be held responsible if any person is engaged in manual scavenging: Gujarat High Court

An order to that effect was passed by a division bench of acting Chief Justice AJ Desai and Justice Biren Vaishnav on May 1.

“We make it clear that till the next date of hearing, if any of the worker whose services have been availed by any of the Municipal Corporation, any Municipality or any Gram Panchayat for cleaning sewerage in the concerned area, the Municipal Commissioner of concerned Corporation, Chief Officer of concerned Municipality and Sarpanch of concerned Gram Panchayat shall be held liable for the action since by the Government Resolution dated June 21, 2014, such activities have been banned,” the bench made it clear.

Source: Barandbench

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