Phool Singh (75) spent Sunday night unzipping bags with corpses. Apart from his parents, Mohanlal left behind his wife and two children — a one-year-old son and a three-month-old daughter. While Mohanlal had cleaned sewers before, he wasn’t experienced, she said, asking why there were no safeguards to protect him: “They clean the filth left by people of this city. Shouldn’t there be rules to safeguard their lives?”Nearby, Phool Singh sat alone, having just returned from his son’s cremation. Jogindar, Rakesh said, was his nephew and had stayed with him for seven years, before moving out last year.

Source: Indian Express August 07, 2017 23:31 UTC