Activist blames workers' deaths on violations

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Safai Karamchari Andolan's national convenor and social activist Bezwada Wilson called the recent deaths of manual scavengers in Delhi disgraceful and said it was due to blatant flouting of the order of the Supreme Court. In the last one month, nine manual scavengers have lost their lives while cleaning sewer lines in the Capital. "On one hand we are celebrating the 70th Independence Day and on the other we are pushing the marginalised communities into the drains to die, " Mr. Wilson said.