Delhi Commissioner of Police has been requested to submit the standing of the investigation. (Representational)
New Delhi:
The Nationwide Human Rights Fee (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report {that a} four-year-old boy died after part of a machine in an open-air health club fell on him in a municipality-run park in West Delhi’s Moti Nagar on thirteenth October 2024.
Reportedly, the individuals current on the spot suspected that the nuts and bolts of the tools had been unfastened which led to the incident.
The Fee has noticed that the contents of the media report, if true, increase a severe challenge of violation of human rights resulting from alleged negligence by the authorities within the upkeep of the tools, put in within the public park.
The incident raises severe considerations concerning the situation of apparatus in different public parks ruled, managed and maintained by the native authorities our bodies in Delhi.
Accordingly, it has issued notices to the Chief Secretary, Authorities of NCT of Delhi, Vice-Chairman, Delhi Growth Authority (DDA), Commissioner, Municipal Company of Delhi (MCD) and Secretary, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) calling for an in depth report within the matter inside 4 weeks.
The authorities are additionally anticipated to tell whether or not any compensation has been paid to the aggrieved household.
The report must also embrace the standing of the upkeep and security audit of the swings and health club tools, and so on. put in within the public parks underneath their jurisdiction in Delhi.
The Fee has additionally requested the Commissioner of Police, Delhi to submit his feedback on the topic together with the standing of the police investigation being performed within the instantaneous case.
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