3 kids electrocuted: 8 NPCL officials booked for culpable homicide in Gautam Budh Nagar

GREATER NOIDA: The Kasna police has lodged an FIR against 8 people together with seven named officers of the Noida Power Company Limited (NPCL) which gives energy to a better part of rural Gautam Budh Nagar under IPC segment 304 (culpable murder not amounting to homicide) within the dying case of three kids who got electrocuted when they came in contact with a circuit breaker within the NPCL substation of Phi four on Wednesday.

The FIR has been lodged against the CEO RC Agrawal, assistant engineer Atish Ranjan, junior engineer Dhirendra, engineer Mohan Singh, assistant manager Vishwakarma, DGM Shushank Andre, common manager Sarnath Ganguly and “different officers.”

The FIR has been lodged against the officers after Pappu, father of one of the most deceased kids Golu lodged a criticism against them alleging that the primary gate of the substation used to be damaged and the shutter of the primary room of the panel field.

According to the FIR lodged on Thursday, the children – Golu (10)from Moradabad, Sagar (12), a native of Bulandshahr who studied in school II and Rinkoo (10) from Mahoba -another elegance II student, were taking part in in Phi III sector close to the substation once they inadvertently entered the premises of the substation.

“Due to the top voltage current within the panel, the youngsters got electrocuted. The incident has happened because of the negligence of the CEO RC Agrawal, assistant engineer Atish Ranjan, junior engineer Dhirendra, engineer Mohan Singh, assistant manager Vishwakarma, DGM Shushank Andre, common manager Sarnath Ganguly and “different officers,” states the FIR.

Kasna SHO Ajay Kumar informed IdealNews that an FIR has been lodged and arrests can be done after investigation.

Meanwhile, after the news of the FIR getting lodged spread, the NPCL officers met the members of the family of one of the most kids at their office on Friday in conjunction with some residents of Vrinda City society in Greater Noida.

Pappu informed IdealNews that officers of the NPCL had contacted them and he visited the office in conjunction with some residents of Vrinda City on Friday.

All the children belonged to deficient households.


While Pappu is a gardener in Amity university, the oldsters of the other two kids have additionally been operating as labourers.


When contacted, NPCL spokesperson Sarnath Ganguly informed IdealNews that they are aware about the FIR getting lodged.


“Let the police investigate the topic. We will not comment prior to investigation,” he said.


TOI had reported that 3 schoolchildren were electrocuted on Wednesday when they allegedly sneaked right into a substation of Noida Power Company Limited (NPCL) while taking part in in Sector Phi III in Greater Noida's Kasna round 2pm. The substation's shutter used to be partly open and the children got electrocuted by means of the circuit breaker carrying a current of 11,000 watt.
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