Contract workers adopt to road construction works during the nights when traffic density is less. Unfortunate accidents like one reported yesterday in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh is shocking. A 45 year old man named Latori Barman, Khadra village (near Bhopal) when slipped accidentally into a pot hole dug between Udlana and Hata villages.
As the laborers were unaware of the person struck in the pot hole due to darkness in the night, they filled the pot hole with molten bituminous material. Later a heavy dumper was also rolled level the stretch. In fact, the situation would have gone unnoticed if Barman’s arm did not stick out from the tarred road. Villagers recovered the body and sent to autopsy. They also attacked the road contractor and workers before police intervened.
District collector Vivek Narwal announced Rs. 50,000 compensation and police arrested the contractor for negligence at work leading to death of an innocent man. Further investigations might unfold the actual truth on whether the man has really fell into the pot hole or somebody has pushed him.