New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday took suo motu cognizance of the death of two persons while cleaning a drain in the capital last week and directed that a PIL be filed in the matter. A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramaniam Prasad has sent notices in this matter to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Delhi Government and Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on the basis of the news of September 11 and senior advocate Rajeshwar Rao to assist the court has been appointed as an amicus curiae.

The police had informed that on September 9, a sanitation worker and a security guard died due to exposure to poisonous gas while cleaning the drain in outer Delhi's Mundka area. They had descended in it to clean the drain. Chief Justice Sharma told Rao, 'You read the news completely. I will give you the material which will help you.'

He has said that there is a Supreme Court judgment on this subject, which says that if a person dies while doing sewer cleaning work by hand, then his family should get some help, along with a family member. Should get a job too. The matter will be next heard on September 21.

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