In the last eight years, 58 manual scavengers have died on duty. Within five months of getting married and a little over a year after Venkatramana took up manual scavenging, he became a statistic. Twenty-four-year-old Venkatramana, a Dalit, died of asphyxiation on October 18 after entering sewage treatment plant in Shantinivas Apartment near Yeshwantpur Railway station in Bengaluru. Manjunath, a Veerashaiva, who entered the septic tank along with Venkatramana, died […]