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A bench of Justices Devan Ramachandran and Shoba Annamma Eapen said their ”hearts were bleeding” and they ”underwent sleepless nights” after seeing the lifeless bodies of the children.
The court said the accident happened as a result of ”the deadly cocktail of callousness, greed and official apathy.” The court said it was initiating the petition on its own to ensure that such an incident does not happen ever again.
The bench noted that such boating tragedies were happening in the state with ”frightening regularity” since 1924 when Kerala lost Mahakavi Kumaranasan, one of the triumvirate poets of Kerala, when a boat from Kollam to Kottayam sank at Palana.
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