Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim visited the tract connected Sunday and ordered an inquiry, starring to a lawsuit being registered astatine the Bantala constabulary station.
A contractor, Alimuddin Sheikh, was arrested connected Monday successful transportation with the deaths of 3 wage laborers astatine the Kolkata Leather Complex connected Sunday.
The laborers, Suman Sardar, Farzam Sheikh, and Sheikh Hashibur, from Nazhat successful Murshidabad, were allegedly hired by Sheikh to cleanable an underground sewage line. The incidental occurred erstwhile 1 idiosyncratic fell sick aft entering a 10-foot-deep manhole, and the different 2 went successful to rescue him. Rescue workers successful diving cogwheel recovered the bodies.
Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim visited the tract connected Sunday and ordered an inquiry, starring to a lawsuit being registered astatine the Bantala constabulary station.
He claimed that the deaths were apt caused by chemic discarded from tanneries flowing done the drainage line, which “should person been directed to the effluent attraction plant”. Hakim said that the constabulary probe would absorption connected wherefore the men were sent into the manhole without pumps.
The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) said it is besides conducting an interior investigation.
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