{"id":146056,"date":"2021-11-11T20:42:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T15:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=146056"},"modified":"2021-11-16T11:24:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:54:33","slug":"tortuous-trajectory-of-uphaar-case-exposes-the-limitations-of-the-legal-framework-to-bring-closure-fix-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tortuous-trajectory-of-uphaar-case-exposes-the-limitations-of-the-legal-framework-to-bring-closure-fix-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Tortuous trajectory of Uphaar case exposes the limitations of the legal framework to bring closure, fix accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News: <\/b>There are so many fire incidences that occurred like in a coaching centre in Surat, children hospital etc. Delhi HC, recently, gave 7 years imprisonment to convicts involved in tampering with evidence in the 1997 Uphaar fire tragedy case.<\/span><\/p>\n

All this raises a question on the efficacy of fire safety norms that fail to prevent such tragic incidents.<\/p>\n

What are the reasons behind the increase in fire incidents?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

1) Disregard of minimum safety standards 2) Criminal negligence 3) \u00a0Lack of fire safety management infrastructure, especially in public spaces like cinema halls, 4. lack of trained staff in public premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more<\/strong>:\u00a0Causes for fire incidents<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What are the shortcomings in the governance process?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

No uniform law: <\/strong>Absence of a comprehensive legal framework to fix claims and liabilities. Also, individual parameters adopted by states are often politically motivated.<\/p>\n

Time-consuming victim compensation process: <\/strong>There is a delay in getting compensation to victims.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

No proper implementation of guidelines: <\/strong>Fire safety standards fall under the municipality. But there is no proper guidelines have been followed and Municipalities are often resourced deprived.<\/p>\n

What needs to be done?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Parliament has earlier introduced two bills on the recommendations of the first Law Commission<\/a>, but it has got lapsed. There is an urgent need to introduce a new law that makes the people accountable and award required punishment to people responsible for fire fatalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more<\/strong>:\u00a0Need for Fire Safety training and technologies<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Source:\u00a0<\/strong>This post is based on the article “Tortuous trajectory of Uphaar case exposes the limitations of the legal framework to bring closure, fix accountability<\/strong>” published in the\u00a0Indian Express\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a011th November 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: There are so many fire incidences that occurred like in a coaching centre in Surat, children hospital etc. Delhi HC, recently, gave 7 years imprisonment to convicts involved in tampering with evidence in the 1997 Uphaar fire tragedy case. All this raises a question on the efficacy of fire safety norms that fail to… Continue reading Tortuous trajectory of Uphaar case exposes the limitations of the legal framework to bring closure, fix accountability<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[9785,10428,212,10442],"class_list":["post-146056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-criminal-justice","tag-fire-disasters","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-uphaar-tragedy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702394668},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}