Doesn’t Maqsood’s poor family – pregnant young wife, elderly parents – deserve compensation?

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By IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, 26 Sep 2014: For last 72 hours, two themes have overwhelmed media stories about the Tuesday incident of Delhi zoo where a young man was mauled to death by a white tiger. The media has been either highlighting the versions of the zoo authorities – that the zoo is absolutely safe and the man was at fault – or publishing biographies on the tiger – his life style, menu and lineage.

Whether the 20-year-old Maqsood was pushed into the enclosure or he himself jumped into or he lost balance while throwing stone at the tiger – version of almost all witnesses captured in the media. This all is the topic of investigation which the police have already begun.

But hardly has anyone talked about need of monetary relief for the family of menial labourer Maqsood, son of auto driver Mahfooz. Maqsood would live with his family in a dingy hutment below the Zakhira flyover in central Delhi’s Anand Parbat area. He was married to one Fatima from West Bengal one year ago. Fatima, seven months pregnant, is at her hometown Kolkata.

Today is the fourth day since Maqsood was killed in the zoo. Neither the zoo authorities nor the Delhi government has announced any compensation for his family. The video shows and eyewitnesses told the media that Maqsood did not commit suicide (jump into the tiger enclosure); rather he lost balance while throwing stone at the tiger.

How ‘absolutely safe’ is the zoo is evident from the picture below. The first fence is hardly three feet high and the moat wall (second fence) is less than two feet high from visitor’s side but fifteen feet high from the side of the enclosure.

Photo courtesy: Times of India

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