HC: It’s civic chief’s duty to provide space to bury dead

MUMBAI: “For a municipal body as also the state government, there cannot be any engagement more urgent than finding appropriate space for burial of the dead,” said Bombay high court on Tuesday, pulling up the state and civic authorities for their lackadaisical attitude.
HC directed the state urban development department to file an affidavit in two weeks on reasons as to why the space reserved for a Muslim cemetery at Deonar has been deleted.
The civic law “casts a duty upon the municipal commissioner to provide a fit and convenient place for disposal of the dead in case the existing places at any time appeared to be insufficient,” said the HC bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Arif Doctor. HC will hear the PIL on September 5.