3 kids electrocuted: 8 NPCL officials booked for culpable homicide in Gautam Budh Nagar

  • | Friday | 22nd March, 2019

The substation's shutter was partially open and the children got electrocuted by the circuit breaker carrying a current of 11,000 watt. We will not comment before investigation,” he said.TOI had reported that three schoolchildren were electrocuted on Wednesday after they allegedly sneaked into a substation of Noida Power Company Limited (NPCL) while playing in Sector Phi III in Greater Noida's Kasna around 2pm. The incident has 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,” states the FIR.Kasna SHO Ajay Kumar told TOI that an FIR has been lodged and arrests will also be done after investigation.Meanwhile, after the news of the FIR getting lodged spread, the NPCL officials met the family members of one of the children at their office on Friday along with some residents of Vrinda City society in Greater Noida.Pappu told TOI that officials of the NPCL had contacted them and he visited the office along with some residents of Vrinda City on Friday.All the children belonged to poor families.While Pappu is a gardener in Amity university, the parents of the other two children have also been working as labourers.When contacted, NPCL spokesperson Sarnath Ganguly told TOI that they are aware about the FIR getting lodged.“Let the police investigate the matter. GREATER NOIDA: The Kasna police has lodged an FIR against eight people including seven named officials of the Noida Power Company Limited (NPCL) which supplies power to a greater part of rural Gautam Budh Nagar under IPC section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) in the death case of three children who got electrocuted after they came in contact with a circuit breaker in the NPCL substation of Phi 4 on Wednesday.The FIR has been lodged against 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 has been lodged against the officials after Pappu, father of one of the deceased children Golu lodged a complaint against them alleging that the main gate of the substation was broken and the shutter of the main room of the panel box.According to the FIR lodged on Thursday, the children – Golu (10)from Moradabad, Sagar (12), a native of Bulandshahr who studied in class II and Rinkoo (10) from Mahoba -another class II student, were playing in Phi III sector near the substation when they inadvertently entered the premises of the substation.“Due to the high voltage current in the panel, the kids got electrocuted.

GREATER NOIDA: The Kasna police has lodged an FIR against eight people including seven named officials of the Noida Power Company Limited (NPCL) which supplies power to a greater part of rural Gautam Budh Nagar under IPC section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) in the death case of three children who got electrocuted after they came in contact with a circuit breaker in the NPCL substation of Phi 4 on Wednesday.The FIR has been lodged against 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 has been lodged against the officials after Pappu, father of one of the deceased children Golu lodged a complaint against them alleging that the main gate of the substation was broken and the shutter of the main room of the panel box.According to the FIR lodged on Thursday, the children – Golu (10)from Moradabad, Sagar (12), a native of Bulandshahr who studied in class II and Rinkoo (10) from Mahoba -another class II student, were playing in Phi III sector near the substation when they inadvertently entered the premises of the substation.“Due to the high voltage current in the panel, the kids got electrocuted. The incident has 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,” states the FIR.Kasna SHO Ajay Kumar told TOI that an FIR has been lodged and arrests will also be done after investigation.Meanwhile, after the news of the FIR getting lodged spread, the NPCL officials met the family members of one of the children at their office on Friday along with some residents of Vrinda City society in Greater Noida.Pappu told TOI that officials of the NPCL had contacted them and he visited the office along with some residents of Vrinda City on Friday.All the children belonged to poor families.While Pappu is a gardener in Amity university, the parents of the other two children have also been working as labourers.When contacted, NPCL spokesperson Sarnath Ganguly told TOI that they are aware about the FIR getting lodged.“Let the police investigate the matter. We will not comment before investigation,” he said.TOI had reported that three schoolchildren were electrocuted on Wednesday after they allegedly sneaked into a substation of Noida Power Company Limited (NPCL) while playing in Sector Phi III in Greater Noida's Kasna around 2pm. The substation's shutter was partially open and the children got electrocuted by the circuit breaker carrying a current of 11,000 watt.

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