AHMEDABAD: Investigators probing the unintended loss of life of Mehul Meena, a 13-year-old child labourer, at a lodge in the Prahladnagar area of the city, found that the lodge authorities made the boy shuttle in the freight elevator in conjunction with items he used to be the smallest worker there.
Mehul, who used to be travelling with items that had to be taken to another floor, had likely poked his head out of the elevator automobile to appear below him when his head struck one of the floors and got wedged between the elevator automobile and lift shaft wall.
Mehul Meena, who labored as a helper at Hotel Platinum Residency, used to be crushed in the coincidence on Thursday. Meena, a resident of Laxmikrupa Society close to Vastrapur railway crossing and a native of Dungarpur in Rajasthan, have been operating at the lodge for 6 months. He used to be hired to scrub utensils and would do a little housekeeping tasks, for a monthly salary of Rs 6,000. “According to the evidence and witness testimonies, we found that the boy, who used to be usually given the duty of transferring with items in the freight elevator, peeked out of the elevator automobile while it used to be descending, and then his head got wedged between the automobile grill and shaft wall,” mentioned a senior respectable of Anandnagar police station.
The respectable mentioned that the elevator had never gone through maintenance since the lodge opened seven years in the past. “The elevator used to be no longer even checked through a lift inspector and the lodge authorities didn't have a licence for it, which cost a child labourer’s life,” mentioned the respectable.
Anandnagar police have submitted a report back to the Gujarat State Commission for Protection of Child Rights for the case of kid labour. Police have additionally got CCTV footage from the lodge and are investigating further.
Mehul, who used to be travelling with items that had to be taken to another floor, had likely poked his head out of the elevator automobile to appear below him when his head struck one of the floors and got wedged between the elevator automobile and lift shaft wall.
Mehul Meena, who labored as a helper at Hotel Platinum Residency, used to be crushed in the coincidence on Thursday. Meena, a resident of Laxmikrupa Society close to Vastrapur railway crossing and a native of Dungarpur in Rajasthan, have been operating at the lodge for 6 months. He used to be hired to scrub utensils and would do a little housekeeping tasks, for a monthly salary of Rs 6,000. “According to the evidence and witness testimonies, we found that the boy, who used to be usually given the duty of transferring with items in the freight elevator, peeked out of the elevator automobile while it used to be descending, and then his head got wedged between the automobile grill and shaft wall,” mentioned a senior respectable of Anandnagar police station.
The respectable mentioned that the elevator had never gone through maintenance since the lodge opened seven years in the past. “The elevator used to be no longer even checked through a lift inspector and the lodge authorities didn't have a licence for it, which cost a child labourer’s life,” mentioned the respectable.
Anandnagar police have submitted a report back to the Gujarat State Commission for Protection of Child Rights for the case of kid labour. Police have additionally got CCTV footage from the lodge and are investigating further.
Child labourer made to travel in freight elevator
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