M F AHMAD
Daltonganj, April 28: A griha pravesh (a Hindu ritual done on the occasion of a person’s first entry into their new home) ended up in a tragedy last night in Daltonganj.
A guest died of electrocution around 10 pm last night in the house where joys and festivities were on for the ceremony.
The officer in charge of the town police station A K Mahatha said this morning that a guest named Nandan Kumar Tiwary, (30) had visited Anil Dubey’s new house at the Bairya locality last night. Nandan got electrocuted by a 33KV high tension wire. He succumbed to the burn on the spot.
Police have registered a UD (unnatural death) case.
“The 33KV wire crosses near the house of Dubey who used to take utmost care of it but this visitor Nandan did not know of the lurking danger and fell for it,” the police officer said.
Sources said Nandan got a call on his cell phone and while talking, he went upstairs where the close by 33KV live wire took a toll on his life.
The house owner, Dubey, has made some protective non-conductor to repel the 33 KV induced current, but Nandan may not have been informed of the danger over the rooftop, nor was he alert enough to see the 33KV electricity wire.
The General Manager of the electricity department here Sanjay Kumar said our ‘defined team’ will inquire into the whole case of the electrocution leading to death.
“The 33KV wire must have been there long before this house came into existence, otherwise had this house been there before then this 33KV wire would not have been around,” the GM said.
Asked if Nandan could have come in direct physical contact to which the GM said there appears no such probability rather he became a victim of induced current which is a current produced in a conductor due to the change in the magnetic field.
On being asked if the electricity department will dole out ex-gratia relief worth Rs. 2 lakhs to the next of kin of the deceased Nandan in the event of death by electrocution, the GM said there is a well-prescribed norm for the release of the ex-gratia relief and it is to be seen by the defined committee if the death so caused is for any fault of the 33 KV.
“Our officials had shut off power for one and a half hours for the family and then when the festivities in the house were getting rounded up this tragic incident happened,” the GM said.
