A Public Interest Litigation has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking its intervention into the incidence where about 100 corpses of persons who are suspected to have died of COVID were found floating in the river Ganga in Bihar and UP.
The PIL has stated that 71 bodies have been fished out at Mahadev Ghat, Chausa, Distict Buxar, Bihar over and above that to the information of the petitioner more than 30 bodies were found in District Ghazipur, U.P.
The plea filed by Advocate Sanjeev Malhotra and drawn by Adv Ashutosh Yadav, has sought the formation of Special Investigating Agency by the top court which may be headed by a sitting /Retired Judge of this Hon'ble Court to overlook upon the investigation.