104 bodies found in Ganga, UP govt. orders probe

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104 bodies found in Ganga, UP govt. orders probe

Lucknow, 14 Jan 2015: The Uttar Pradesh government Wednesday ordered a probe after over 100 bodies were found in a channel of the Ganga in Unnao district, an official said.

Thirty bodies were recovered from the river's channel till late Tuesday but by Wednesday morning the number swelled up to 104.

Director General of Police (DGP) A.K. Gupta has sought a detailed report after recovery of the bodies in the Ganga, near the Periyaar Ghat, where bodies are generally cremated.

Kanpur Inspector General of Police Ashutosh Pandey said the bodies belonged to the families who could not afford a decent cremation as per Hindu traditions and dumped them in the river.

Gupta, however, has reportedly asked police to probe all angles before arriving at a conclusion.

The district administration used JCB machines to fish out the decomposed bodies from the river bed and the encatchment areas, a step protested by residents and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

BJP state president Laxmikant Bajpayi, who visited the site where the bodies have been found, rang up senior officials at night and protested the "inhumane treatment" being meted out to the dead.

Officials told IANS that all bodies will be cremated as per tradition by the district administration Wednesday.

Meanwhile, volunteers of the Ganga Bachao Andolan (Save Ganga Movement) led by Ramji Tripathi began a sit-in to protest dumping of the dead in the Ganga, which they said, was polluting the river.

The recovery of bodies from the Ganga has caused furore among residents as these were found a day before Makar Sankranti festival when thousands take a holy dip in the river.
104 bodies found in Ganga, UP govt. orders probe

 

[prasad1]

Unnao district is represented by the infamous Sakshi Maharaj of Bjp.
May be he should spend some time developing his constituency, instead of making provocative speeches.

 

[prasad1]

Sadly this is what Ganga is today.

Supreme Court on Wednesday said Ganga cleansing programmes have been going on for over three decades with almost no impact on the ground and wondered whether the government wanted to do something during this tenure or would it spill over to the next term.
The apex court sought fresh response of the government about the steps undertaken by it to implement the stage-wise projects for cleaning the Ganga in the states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal in six weeks.


"Now the point is, it is going on for last 30 years. You (Centre) tell us as to what is the verifiable progress in this regard," a bench headed by Justice T S Thakur said when the counsel for the Centre submitted that "things are happening".

"118 more towns have been identified by this government. Things have started moving. They (municipalities and other concerned authorities) have been told to wake up," solicitor general Ranjit Kumar submitted before the bench that also comprised justices R K Agrawal and Adarsh Kumar Goel.
The bench, which had earlier asked the Centre to come out with a "stage-wise plan" to clean the river, sought additional specific response on 70 sewage treatment plants (STPs), which are at various stages, likely to come up in the five Ganga basin states.


"If you have financial problem, we cannot solve. All that is required is that you go ahead with the projects and if there is any bottleneck, you can come before us. Don't take it (PIL) as an adversarial litigation. Do you want to say that this has to be done during this government or in the next term of the government," it asked.


"We propose to conclude it by 2018," the SG replied.
'Will you clean up Ganga in this term or the next?' Supreme Court asks Centre - Hindustan Times


Adi Shankara in Bhaja govindam says:
21) bhagavad gIta kiNchida dhItA
gaNgA jala lava kanikA pItA
sakri-dapi yEna murAri samraRchA
kriyatE tasya ya mEna-na chaRchA
Let a man read but a little from the Gita, drink just a drop of water from the Ganga,
worship Murari just once. He then will have no altercation with Yama.

Did he mean this Ganga jala?

 

[sarang]

Supreme court has conceded that modi and bjp will get another term. It has to face reality and accept what is good for the country.

One has to be more than foolish to link unrelated issues to vent personal hate. The police is yet to investigate and proceed with the case. As for now no one knows.

The judges too make wise cracks but what they write in the final order is important. Even on the black money issue too the learned judge made some observations but conveniently ignored in the written order. Even in the case related to claimed educational qualification of Sonia Gandhi, the judge told swamy - you are right, what you want us to do, and swamy too laughed and did not press for a vetrdict.

Such hatred for Hindus, bjp and sangh parivar is not good for the constitution and health. Swelling support for native vedic hindutva principles will cause more heart burn and acidity if this compulsive hate disorder is not curtailed.