The High Court has directed the Registrar of Births and Deaths, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, to issue a death certificate to the 32-year-old widow of an excavator operator, who was washed away in rainwater while cleaning a Storm-Water Drain excavator during rains way back in 2017 and his body remained untraced till today.
Though the BBMP itself had paid ₹10 lakh as compensation to her for the death of her husband Shanthkumar S., the Registrar for Births and Deaths had rejected her application for the issuance of a death certificate.
Justice Suraj Govindaraj passed the order while allowing the petition filed by Saraswathi S.P. Her husband was working for the BBMP when he was washed away in rain while engaged in cleaning the drain on May 20, 2017.
