Worker dies while cleaning sewage tank in Gurugram

Our Correspondent

Gurugram, November 11

A worker cleaning a sewage tank near the Sheetla Mata temple was suffocated to death inside it. The brother of the deceased accused the contractor company of the MCG of negligence and an FIR has been registered against the company at the Sector 5 police station.

Mohammad Mokim, a native of west Bengal, but living in Delhi, filed the complaint which said his brother Yakub Ali (19) was working as a fitter with GMK Company which had contract of sewage cleaning through the MCG in Gurugram village.

“It was on Tuesday when my brother was asked to enter the sewage tank for cleaning without any safety equipment. He was suffocated to death inside the tank. It was negligence on the part of the company because had there been any safety equipment, my brother would not have died”, Mokim said in his complaint. Following the complaint, the police lodged an FIR of negligence against the contractor company and handed over the body to the kin after the postmortem. The police said they were verifying facts and action would be taken accordingly.