Sahnewal: Youth electrocuted, kin seek relief

Our Correspondent

Sahnewal, September 5

A 20-year-old boy, Abhishek, was allegedly electrocuted while lifting a container at a factory in Dhandhari on Friday. His family has refused to hand over his body for post-mortem examination till they are adequately compensated. The father of the deceased is paralysed and his sister is admitted to a hospital for surgery.

RK Yadav, general secretary of Samajwadi Party local unit, said the family had been running from pillar to post since day before yesterday. “It seems that the Police Department as well as the administration has become inhumane. Even since the boy died, the Police Department has shown no concern at all. We met the chowki in charge of Kanganwal, who told us that the Investigating Officer Karnail Singh shall work on it. Similar was the reply of Sahnewal SHO Balwinder Singh. Yesterday, I took along the IO to the factory where the incident had taken place but nothing substantial came out of it. As our pleas were going unheard, we staged a dharna before the Kanganwal police chowki today, after which an FIR was registered and assurance was given that the factory owner and the driver involved in the case would be nabbed”.

“The body shall not be handed over for post-mortem examination till the owner of the factory where the incident took place and the one where the deceased was engaged in loading and unloading of containers, compensate the family for the loss. The family has no money even for his last rites,” he added.

Lal Dhari, the father of the deceased, said, “I have lost my son. I do not have money to cremate him. Moreover, I am paralysed and he was the only breadwinner of the family. My daughter is in the hospital and has to undergo a surgery,” he added.

Investigating Officer Karnail Singh said an FIR was being registered against the factory owner and the driver who had engaged Abhishek for loading and unloading of containers. “The culprits shall soon be arrested and further investigation initiated in the case,” he stated.