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Ranipet tannery to pay $4,000 for each death

20/03/2015

The Indian tannery where 10 workers died last month after a sludge tank burst over them while they were sleeping has been ordered to pay Rs75 lakh ($120,000) compensation, reported the Times of India. Ranipet Sidco has placed the money in a bank account after the ruling by the National Green Tribunal, a government body set up to handle...

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