NHRC seeks report on man carrying wife's body.

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NHRC seeks report on man carrying wife's body.

    The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought an action taken report from chief secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra on the February 8 incident wherein a poor migrant worker had to carry the body of his wife on his shoulder from neighboring Andhra Pradesh to his native place in Koraput of Odisha.

   The commission has issued the notice based on a petition filed by human rights lawyer Radhakant Tripathy who has highlighted the plight of the migrant worker Samulu Pangi (33),Pangi carried the body of his wife, Ide Guru (30),on his shoulder to reach his native place at Sorada in Pottangi block of Koraput to perform her last rites.

  The commission has asked for the report within four weeks.Pangi had admitted his ailing wife to a hospital in Sangivalasa in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh.However,the doctors there said she was not responding to the treatment and advised him to take her back home, around 100 km from the said place,said Tripathy in the petition.

    He mentioned that Pangi first hired an auto-rickshaw to bring his ailing wife home.The driver of the vehicle after traveling some distance, refused to go move farther realizing that Ide had died midway.Still quite a distance away, finding no other option, Pangi started walking with his wife's body on his shoulder, the petitioner mentioned.While he was walking, Andhra Pradesh Police spotted him,but couldn't understand the situation due to language problem initially.But after coming to know,the police helped Pangi reach home.

   Due to lack of medical facilities at his native place, negligent behavior at the hospital in neighboring Andhra Pradesh and language barrier for the police, Pangi had suffered immensely,the petition contended.