Naked Wire Kills Laborer; Uttarakhand Power Corporation MD Charged
The managing director of Uttarakhand Power Corporation Ltd. (UPCL) has been charged under IPC Section 304A causing death via ignorance on September 27. Balam, a daily wage laborer was electrocuted after unknowingly touching a low-hanging live wire on July 15, 2020 in Dehradun. His wife asserted that her husband died due to authorities' failure to fix dangling wires in the market.