The un-announced load shedding resulted in the Khori Garden incident in which 20 women and children were killed owing to suffocation and injuries due to stampede, maintains a miscellaneous application filed on Tuesday before High Court of Sindh.
The applicant, Syed Iqbal Kazmi, a local social worker and Human Rights activist said that Electricity Act forbids un-announced load shedding yet power utility is resorting to one which resulted in worst incident of its kind during distribution of free ration to poor and needy.
The power outage lead to the darkness on narrow staircase and the suffocation panicked the poor victims who tried to rush out of the tiny packed room which resulted in stampede and loss of human lives. The applicant maintained that since 2007 he is filing a number of petitions and if the same are heard and decided, KESC would have been taken to the task.
Praying to the court to hear his petitions against KESC, he requested the court to declare the un-announced load shedding by KESC as illegal and to direct KESC to pay compensation to the heirs of the victims of Khori Garden tragedy and to hear his petitions on day to day basis for a decision soon.
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