CEO of NPCL, 6 other executives booked for death of children at substation

Noida | Saturday | 23rd March, 2019

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While Pappu is a gardener in Amity university, the parents of the other two children work as labourers.Contacted, NPCL spokesperson Sarnath Ganguly said they were aware about the FIR mentioning senior NPCL officials. The incident happened due to the negligence of the CEO RC Agrawal, assistant engineer Atish Ranjan, junior engineer Dhirendra, engineer Mohan Singh, assistant manager Vishwakarma, DGM Shushank Andre, general manager Sarnath Ganguly and ‘other officials’, the FIR states. They had inadvertently entered the premises of the substation.“Due to the high voltage current in the panel, the kids got electrocuted. Greater Noida: Eight persons, including seven officials of the Noida Power Company Limited ( NPCL ), which supplies power to a greater part of rural Gautam Budh Nagar, have been booked after three children got electrocuted when they came in contact with a circuit breaker at a substation on Wednesday. We will not comment before investigation,” he said..