A 69-year-old man died after falling into an 8 to 10 feet deep pit dug by the Pune Municipal Corporation for a drainage line project in Yerwada area of Pune, Maharashtra.
This incident happened on October 17 at around 12:30 pm near Chitra Chowk vegetable market. The deceased has been identified as Pradeep Pardeshi, a resident of Yerwada.
According to the police, Pardeshi was walking on the road when a passing auto rickshaw allegedly hit him, causing him to lose his balance and fall into the dug pit.
Yuvraj Nandre, senior police inspector of Lakshmi Nagar police station, told IANS that work on the drainage line was going on at that location for the last 15 days.
He said that as a precautionary measure, barricades were put up around the excavation site.
After the incident, Pardeshi was taken to Shubhankar Hospital in Yerwada, where he died during treatment in the evening.
Nandre said police received information about the incident through a medico-legal case (MLC) information on the morning of October 18.
He said that initially we had received information that a vehicle slipped and fell into a pit, due to which one person died. After receiving the information we made some inquiries.
The police later contacted the family of the deceased and obtained information about the incident.
Nandre said that after some questioning, the family told us that they will go to the police station after the funeral and lodge a formal complaint.
Police said that no formal complaint has been registered yet in this matter.
Nandre further said that further action will be taken after the family goes to the police station and lodges a complaint.
The incident has once again drawn attention towards safety arrangements at road excavation sites during ongoing civil infrastructure projects.