TECHNICIAN DIES AFTER SERVICE ELEVATOR FALLS 15 FLOORS

MUMBAI: A technician, working for an elevator manufacturing company, died on Monday after the defunct service lift he was repairing on the 15th floor of a high-rise at Chunabhatti crashed.

The victim, Ketan Shantaram Bahirat, 42, was a resident of Digha in Thane.

According to the Chunabhatti police, Bahirat succumbed to the grievous injuries he sustained in the accident, which took place around 4pm at Tower-2 of Central Garden Condominium Complex on Swadeshi Mill Road.

“While repairing the service elevator on the 15th floor, he entered it and shut the door. A colleague, who was waiting outside the elevator, heard a loud noise. He rushed to the ground floor and pulled out an injured Bahirat from the elevator,” said an officer from Chunabhatti police station.

Although the police rushed him to the hospital, Bahirat was declared dead on arrival. The police have filed an accidental death report (ADR).

This is the second incident within a month, in which a person died in an elevator accident.

On Thursday, 63-year-old dentist Arnavaz Havewala succumbed to the injuries she sustained after the lift she was in at Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Byculla, crashed. The incident had occurred in the last week of April.

Initially, the Byculla police had registered a case of causing hurt by negligence.

However, after Havewala died, a first information report (FIR) was registered under section 304 (a) (death due to negligence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).