00:00The family of an Indian tourist who fell into a sinkhole on Jalan Masjid India in Kuala Lumpur in 2024
00:08is seeking 824,000 ringgit in compensation from the federal government.
00:14Lawyer M Partibin, representing G. Vijay Lakshmi's family, said the sum was based on the damages awarded by the Kuala
00:22Lumpur Session Court
00:22to a couple whose son was killed by a falling tree in 2023.
00:27Lawyer M Partibin said he was negotiating the compensation sum with Kuala Lumpur City Hall and Federal Territories Minister Hannah
00:35Yeo.
00:36He said at a press conference today that in the case of the tree that killed a boy three years
00:42ago,
00:42the Sessions Court had ruled that there was negligence on the part of DBKL in terms of maintenance,
00:49adding that in the current sinkhole case, they could similarly prove negligence.
00:54Vijay Lakshmi, 48, from Andhra Pradesh, was on holiday in Malaysia when she was swallowed by an 8-meter-deep
01:01sinkhole
01:02which opened up while she was walking along Jalan Masjid India on August 23, 2024.
01:10A DBKL-led task force investigating the incident later identified a sewer pipe structure
01:16weakened by chemical corrosion and soil instability as the main cause of the sinkhole.
01:23Narutha Raja, FMT.
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