JHARSUGUDA: The body of a 44-year-old man was once fished out from Ib river via Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force workforce and firefighters on Sunday morning. Police said his colleagues had allegedly thrown him into the river after he was once discovered to have died on option to Vimsar, Burla, on Saturday.
The deceased has been recognized via police as Gautam Bhandari, 44. Police said five other folks from West Bengal had reached Jharsuguda on June 11 to paintings for a contractor, Haren Chandra Pati. Pati supplies labour to BGR Energy Systems, which is setting up the third and fourth unit of 660MW each at Orissa Power Generation Corporation at Banharpalli. The five were staying in combination in a employee's colony.
Of the five staff, Bhandari was once discovering it tricky to find employment owing to his in poor health health. "On Saturday, Bhandari complained of uneasiness. When his condition deteriorated at night, we informed the security in-charge, who advised us to take him to Vimsar. The security in-charge immediately arranged a vehicle to take Bhandari to Burla. But when we checked his pulse rate on the way, he was found to be dead. Not knowing what to do next, we threw the body into the Ib river from Rampella bridge," said Kajal Patra, some of the five staff.
When the security in-charge contacted them to investigate about Gautam's health in a while, they informed him that he had died. "On hearing this, he instructed us to take the body to TRL hospital instead of Vimsar, Burla. But by then, we had already thrown the body into the river," Patra added.
M. Shekhar, deputy general manager (security), BGR Energy Systems said, "When we came to know that the workers had thrown the body of Gautam Bhandari into the Ib, we immediately informed the police about the incident." Police have detained the 4 staff and the driving force of the vehicle which took them to Burla.
The deceased has been recognized via police as Gautam Bhandari, 44. Police said five other folks from West Bengal had reached Jharsuguda on June 11 to paintings for a contractor, Haren Chandra Pati. Pati supplies labour to BGR Energy Systems, which is setting up the third and fourth unit of 660MW each at Orissa Power Generation Corporation at Banharpalli. The five were staying in combination in a employee's colony.
Of the five staff, Bhandari was once discovering it tricky to find employment owing to his in poor health health. "On Saturday, Bhandari complained of uneasiness. When his condition deteriorated at night, we informed the security in-charge, who advised us to take him to Vimsar. The security in-charge immediately arranged a vehicle to take Bhandari to Burla. But when we checked his pulse rate on the way, he was found to be dead. Not knowing what to do next, we threw the body into the Ib river from Rampella bridge," said Kajal Patra, some of the five staff.
When the security in-charge contacted them to investigate about Gautam's health in a while, they informed him that he had died. "On hearing this, he instructed us to take the body to TRL hospital instead of Vimsar, Burla. But by then, we had already thrown the body into the river," Patra added.
M. Shekhar, deputy general manager (security), BGR Energy Systems said, "When we came to know that the workers had thrown the body of Gautam Bhandari into the Ib, we immediately informed the police about the incident." Police have detained the 4 staff and the driving force of the vehicle which took them to Burla.
Five detained for throwing worker's body into Ib river
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