Liquor factory deaths: Rs 10 L compensation for kin of workers

A magisterial enquiry will be ordered into the death of four labourers while cleaning a pit of biogas waste at a liquor factory in Rampur district, and the victims' kin will be paid compensation of Rs 10 lakh each.
According to Fashat Ali Khan Shanu, PRO of senior Uttar Pradesh minister Mohd Azam Khan, family members of the four deceased shall be entitled to ex-gratia payment of Rs 10 lakh each.
Khan, who is in Columbia in the US, expressed his anguish over the incident and alleged that "grave negligence" led to the deaths, the PRO said.
Four labourers -- Nasir (35), Pappu (32), Sunder (30) and Nirmal (33) -- deied while three others were injured while cleaning a tank at the liquor factory.

The conditions of the three injured, who were undergoing treatment at a hospital in Moradabad, was serious, District Magistrate Rakesh Kumar Singh said today.