Ghaziabad: A 22-year-old man, who stopped to help an elderly man, found him moaning in pain after suffering. Electric shock He died on a road when he too accidentally touched a low hanging. High tension wire Thursday near the Ganges Canal in Missouri.
A 26-second video, possibly shot by bystanders and shared on social media, shows sparks flying with loud explosions as the man is burned by high-voltage currents running through his body. .
Mohammad Kaif, a daily wage laborer from Nihal village in Mussoorie, was on his way to work in Ghaziabad with his cousin Rashid around 11 am on Thursday when he was electrocuted.
ACP (Mussuri) Siddharth Gautam told TOI that Kaif got off his bike near the railway bridge when he saw an elderly man moaning in pain after touching a high-tension wire.
“Even though she was running late for work, Kaif decided to help her. Senior citizensWho was later identified as Chand Muhammad. Eyewitnesses told us that an 11kV power line was hanging a few feet above the ground where the elders were sitting. “It seems that while tending to the man, Kaif's chest also accidentally touched the cable which led to the electric shock,” the officer said. The body has been sent for post-mortem and the report is awaited. is
Mohammed, who suffered minor burns, is out of danger, police said. He had gone fishing in the Ganges canal when he touched the cable.
“Our team visited the spot and found that the cable, though not broken, was hanging very low. Information has been sought from the electricity department on this,” the ACP said. .
An FIR under BNS Section 106 (1) (causing death by negligence) was registered against the electricity department after the victim's family filed a complaint at the Missouri police station.
Kaif's father Zulfiqar said that the high tension power line was hanging down for a long time. “Several complaints were submitted but no action was taken. If the department had taken its work seriously, my son would be alive today,” he said.
Residents of nearby areas also told TOI that the electricity department has so far been bouncing the issue between its Ghaziabad and Hapur units.
Rajeev Agarwal, Chief Engineer, PVVNL, Bulandshahr, told TOI that the cable allegedly came into contact with the 11kV feeder fed from Section 2 of the power distribution at Hapur under the 33/11kV substation in Mussoorie.
“The 11kV cable is stretched across the Ganga canal and has a double pole at one end and a single at the other end, which is connected to another 11kV cable. Due to the puncture of the 11kV disc insulator on this pole, the wires We have started operations as usual,” he said.