NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to the Delhi government over a report which also carried photographs showing a man standing "chest-deep in muck" inside a drain at Kashmere Gate area here, officials said. The NHRC has observed that the incident indicates that despite unwarranted deaths in sewers and sheer indignity of the work, manual cleaning of drains continues in the national capital.
The Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report with the photographs of a man chest-deep in muck, standing inside a drain at Kashmere Gate area of Delhi, reportedly under the PWD.
