Man dies after falling into sewer in Dabri

NEW DELHI: Sewer death continued to haunt the national Capital, as another person died after he went inside the manhole for cleaning in Dwarka district area on Sunday. Police claimed that they will soon arrest the accused.

According to police, a PCR call was received at 8 pm on September 14 regarding one person falling in the sewer. The team reached the spot and it was found that the injured Anil was hired by one Satbir alias Kala, resident of Village Dabri to clean the sewer line as water was stagnant in his building. While climbing down the sewer, Anil slipped and the rope around his waist broke and he fell in the sewer which is about 20 feet deep. The victim was rushed to the hospital where he died.

"No protective gear was provided to the victim and even the rope wasn't strong enough to bear the tension and dusk time was not advisable to do the work," police said. Hence a case under sections 304 A and 304 IPC and 7/9 Prohibition of Employment of Manual Scavengers Act was registered in Dabri police station.

The accused Satbir alias Kala from village Dabri was hospitalised in ICU of Orchid Hospital for high BP in the night after this incident. On Sunday, he has been discharged from the hospital and will be arrested soon. A senior police claimed that the sewer was of Delhi Jal Board. It was not the first time that person died without sewer, recently five persons died after they went for the maintenance of sewage treatment plant in West Delhi's Moti Nagar area on Sunday. In the year 2017, a 48-year-old man died while cleaning the sewer on the premises of the hospital. In another case, three workers died cleaning sewer line in south Delhi. The deaths come barely a month after four people had died of asphyxiation cleaning a tank in Ghitorni, also in south Delhi.