Apex court seeks steps to prevent kids from falling into borwells
February 13th, 2009 - 8:38 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday issued notices to four states for details of measures they have undertaken to prevent children from falling into deep and narrow open borewells in rural areas.
A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice P. Sathasivam sought details from Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, treating a letter sent to it as a public interest lawsuit.
The letter was written in the wake of several incidents of small children falling and dying in the borewells, dug in rural areas for irrigation.
These incidents included one last October when a two-year-old Sonu fell in a 150-foot deep narrow pit in his village near Agra in Uttar Pradesh.
All efforts to save Sonu failed and his body could be taken out of the borewell only five days later.
Similarly, in mid-2006 Prince of Kurukshetra district in Haryana fell into a deep borewell and could be saved only after days of combined efforts of the army and the police personnel.
Issuing the notices to the four states where such incidents have recurred, the apex court sought their replies within four weeks.
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- District magistrates should ensure borewells are capped: court - Feb 11, 2010
- Two-year-old toddler falls into borewell in Andhra - Jan 18, 2010
- Efforts fail to rescue toddler from Andhra borewell (Lead) - Jan 18, 2010
- Rescue operation on to save kid stuck in Warangal borewell - Jan 18, 2010
- Six-year-old falls into borewell - Mar 17, 2010
- Toddler dies after falling into borewell - May 20, 2011
- Efforts to save two-year-old boy from borewell suffers set back - Oct 12, 2008
- After 96 hours, child's body recovered from Agra borewell - Oct 13, 2008
- Rescuers in Agra battle to save a child from 150 feet deep narrow well - Oct 10, 2008
- Man trapped in borewell dies - Jun 21, 2010
- Efforts continue to pull boy out from borewell (Lead) - Mar 18, 2010
- Rescue workers still struggle to save 2-year-old boy from borewell - Oct 12, 2008
- Three-year-old rescued from borewell in Gurdaspur, dies in hospital - Jun 03, 2010
- Child who fell into borewell in Madhya Pradesh rescued - Dec 16, 2009
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