Live
- BJP releases ‘charge sheet’ against BJD govt
- District Nodal Officer Venkataramana announced the intermediate results
- She team that stopped child marriages
- Medical devices sector needs separate rules, says industry body AiMeD
- Andhra Paper declares lockout
- Opposition INDIA bloc working on 'one year, one PM' formula: PM Modi
- Delhi HC quashes FIR for outraging woman's modesty, orders man to assist Traffic Police for a month as settlement
- 'Apologise to families of farmers who committed suicide in Vidarbha', Amit Shah dares Sharad Pawar
- SC Collegium recommends appointment of a permanent judge in Chhattisgarh HC, extension of term of two judges
- U20 Men's football nationals: Telangana, Sikkim earn full points with easy win
MLA Amanchi demands justice to kin of worker
Chirala MLA Amanchi Krishnamohan staged a protest at the Government Hospital against the apathy of police department and negligence of various other departments over the death of a worker on Thursday.
Chirala: Chirala MLA Amanchi Krishnamohan staged a protest at the Government Hospital against the apathy of police department and negligence of various other departments over the death of a worker on Thursday.
According to details provided by the MLA and locals, K V Apparao (28), a native of Vithal Nagar, Bujji, a native of Karamchedu, Satyam, a native of Vadarevu in Chirala, are daily wage workers. They went for road laying work at Timirtipadu village in Karemchedu mandal on Wednesday.
As part of the work, Apparao tried to hammer an iron rod into the Earth to keep the road margin plates in place. But as the electricity department had already laid underground electricity cables there, the iron rod came into contact with the live wire and Apparao was electrocuted.
The contractor of the road Bodavula Ranganayakulu, threatened other workers of dire consequences if they reveal the truth, and sent Apparao’s body to Chirala Government Hospital saying he collapsed suddenly while working. Sensing foul play, the relatives of Apparao went to Timirtipadu and learnt how he died from the locals.
During that night, when they were trying to complain to the police, the contractor Ranganayakulu, Sarpanch Rattayya and other village elders offered Rs 8,000 as compensation to the kin of the dead worker.
Humiliated by the mean response of contractor, the relatives of Apparao and other workers reached the residence of MLA Amanchi Krishnamohan on Thursday morning and requested him to intervene.
