Shimla Jaundice outbreak: HC orders interim relief, pulls up top state officials

Alarmed over a jaundice outbreak causing a dozen deaths in Shimla, the Himachal Pradesh High Court Thursday ordered the government to pay an interim compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the families of the victims and warned of stern action against three top officials — two Irrigation & Public Health Department (IPH) engineers and member secretary of the Pollution Control Board — for filing incorrect reports. The court also gave its go-ahead to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to take the probe into an already registered FIR in the matter to its logical end. It asked the SIT to specifically pinpoint officers responsible/involved from 2007 for the supply of contaminated water from Ashwani Khad, a drinking water supply source right below the Malyana Sewage Treatment Plant (STP).

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