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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. 

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 - 08:32 PM / by Vidhi Jhunjhunwala

Tags: Live wire, Uttarakhand, UPCL, Electrocution, Dehradun

Courtesy: The Times Of India