Samajwadi Party State president Rabi Behera has moved the Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) urging for an order to the NHAI authorities and Twin City Commissionerate Police to ensure the NH-5 between Cuttack and Bhubaneswar is safe these days, especially when kites with sharp edged threads fly in sky and cause mishap on the commuters and locals.
Drawing attention to the death of a Standard II six-year-old girl on Monday whose throat was slit in sharp edged thread of a kite near Telengapentha, he demanded compensation to the deceased girl’s parents of Rs 10 lakh and proper inquiry into the matter.
He also urged that both the NH 5 authority and the Twin City Police be taken to task for their carelessness to stop rampant use of unsafe kite threads.
According to sources, Swetalana, daughter of Tapan Kumar Behera of Patrakana village under Kasrada Police Out Post of Cuttack district was killed while going in a bike with her parents as her neck came in contact with a kite string on National Highway -5. Her father also got bruises by the kite string.