Unidentified officers of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) have been booked after a 53-year-old farmer died of electrocution after coming in touch with a low-hanging 11kV high-tension transmission line in Farrukhnagar on Friday, police mentioned on Saturday.
The deceased was recognized as Surender Singh, a farmer who lived in Tirpadi village in Farrukhnagar, police mentioned.
Police officers mentioned the incident happened between 2pm and a pair of.15pm when Singh was in his area together with his nephew Rahul Singh, 24, finishing up irrigation work. Investigators mentioned Singh was changing an aluminium pipe of his automated irrigation system when it got here in touch with the reside high-tension wire, leaving him with extreme burn accidents.
A senior police officer mentioned a commuter, Keshav Kumar, who was passing by the realm in his automobile, helped Rahul load Singh into the automobile and rushed him to SGT Hospital in Chandu Budhera. “Nevertheless, docs declared him useless on arrival, following which Rahul acquired an FIR registered towards discom officers below part 106 (inflicting loss of life by negligence) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Farrukhnagar police station on Friday,” he mentioned.
Within the FIR, Rahul alleged that the high-tension wire was hanging extraordinarily low above the sector. “We had complained to the DHBVN officers a number of instances to repair the wires, however they didn’t take any motion, which finally resulted in my uncle’s loss of life,” he alleged.
A DHBVN official, requesting anonymity, mentioned an inside inquiry can be carried out. “If anybody is discovered responsible, needed departmental motion can be taken towards him for the negligence ensuing within the loss of life,” he mentioned.
Sandeep Turan, public relations officer of Gurugram police, mentioned additional authorized motion will depend upon the inquiry report. “As soon as the inner inquiry report is shared with us by the DHBVN, it can grow to be clear whose negligence resulted within the electrocution,” he mentioned, including the physique was handed over to the household after an post-mortem on Saturday.
