New Delhi [India], February 7 (ANI): Delhi Police on Saturday arrested sub-contractor Rajesh Prajapati in reference to the loss of life of a 25-year-old man after his bike fell right into a deep, uncovered pit allegedly dug by the Delhi Jal Board throughout highway work in West Delhi’s Janakpuri space.
According to the police, the sub-contractor was made conscious of the accident at night time however did nothing to assist the motorcyclist.
The police investigation revealed {that a} household was passing by when the 25-year-old, Kamal, fell into the pit, and the household knowledgeable the safety guard current there.
Sub-contractor Rajesh Prajapati was then knowledgeable at 12:22 AM. Rajesh got here to the scene however didn’t examine the pit, police mentioned.
The incident passed off close to B3B Block in Janakpuri, near Andhra School on Professor Jogender Singh Marg. According to the FIR, no warning indicators, reflectors, barricades or correct lighting preparations had been current on the website, and no safety guard had been deployed. The FIR states that the pit was left open in the course of a public highway with none security measures.
When police reached the spot, they discovered an unidentified man alongside together with his bike, mendacity inside a pit measuring about 20 toes in size, 13 toes in width and round 14 toes in depth. The pit had been dug in the course of the highway as a part of highway work.
The injured man was pulled out of the pit with the assistance of the hearth brigade and brought to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital in a PCR automobile. However, the hospital later knowledgeable police that ‘the affected person introduced by PCR has been declared introduced useless.
Quoting the medical report, the FIR states: ‘Patient was delivered to ER in an unconscious and unresponsive state with an alleged historical past of being discovered roadside close to Joginder Singh Marg at round 08:00 am. Injury particulars embody a grazed abrasion over the epigastric area, and the affected person was introduced in useless.’ (ANI)