The Jabalpur District Court has ordered an FIR against the cruise boat pilot and others after a river tragedy in Madhya Pradesh killed 13 people. The court, acting on its own notice, pointed to negligence and specifically highlighted the operator’s failure to stay with and manage passengers during the incident. Authorities are now expected to investigate and prevent similar lapses.
A probe in Keonjhar, Odisha, has been launched after a tribal man was allegedly forced to carry his deceased sister’s skeletal remains to a bank to prove her death and access her savings. The incident has triggered public outrage and exposed serious lapses in empathy and procedure by bank staff, according to investigators.
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