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HC pulls up VMC over Harni boat tragedy
Ahmedabad Mirror|January 30, 2024
Calls for policy for management of water bodies; says unless and until such tragedy occurs, people live in 'denial mode', thinking this will never happen
HC pulls up VMC over Harni boat tragedy

The Gujarat High Court on Monday pulled up the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) over the Harni boat tragedy, in which 12 children and two teachers lost their lives, and called for a policy for the management of water bodies and to fix accountability to officials in case of such incidents.

Hearing a suo motu PIL on the incident, the division bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Aniruddha P Mayee observed that unless and until such tragedy occurs, people live in "denial mode", thinking this will never happen. "You (VMC) may have taken a hundred corrective measures (after the incident), but that is not enough. We want to know how you were operating prior to the incident. And, whether anybody is accountable in the corporation or not. Or only the contractor is to be slashed?" the HC asked when the civic body's lawyer told the court about measures taken after the incident.

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