2 managers arrested over eatery deaths
The Delhi police have arrested two senior managers of a restaurant were arrested in connection with the death of two employees of the restaurant in west Delhi’s Rajouri Garden who died allegedly due to asphyxiation while cleaning it’s kitchen treatment plant, police said on Sunday.
The incident took place on Saturday at ‘Pirates of Grill’ restaurant in which the housekeeping employees Rakesh (45) and Ajay (19) died while two of their colleagues Pankaj and Raju— were they said.
Two employees, Pankaj Kumar, area manager and Aftab, the unit manager of the restaurant have been arrested in connection with the incident, Monika Bhardwaj, deputy commissioner of police (west) said.
A case was registered under section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of Indian Penal Code and SC/ST Act, she said.
Investigations revealed that the two arrested employees were the supervisory officer of the staffers and were responsible hospitalised, ◗ for the safety and security of the staffers, another senior officer said.
None of the four workers who went to the basement to clean its kitchen treatment plant were provided any safety gears and being the supervisory staff, it was the responsibility of the arrested persons to provide safety gears to the staff before allowing them to clean the treatment plant, the officer said.
The officer added that the owners of the restaurant were also questioned in connection with the case and they are going through the documents to ascertain their role into the incident. The postmortem of the bodies are yet to be conducted and the family members of the victim have sought for a compensation. Further investigation is underway, police said.
The post-mortem of the bodies are yet to be conducted and the family members of the victim have sought for a compensation. Further investigation is underway