Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
The Parappana Agrahara police have registered an FIR against four BESCOM engineers after a 27-year-old lineman was electrocuted due to negligence of the officials in Rayasandra on Saturday.
Based on the complaint by Mallikarjun,elder brother of the deceased and the eye witness to the incident, the police charged BESCOM Junior engineer,Assistant Engineer, Assistant Executive Engineer and Executive Engineer of Chandapura division charging them under death due to Negligence .
The deceased Nagaraj Badiger,working as lineman in BESCOM for the last seven years and was on work taking down meter reading at the houses in the area.
Since Mallikarjun had a holiday he accompanied his brother to ferry him on his bike .
While he was at work,Nagaraj received a phone call from his senior at around 12.30 pm asking him to come near Shabari bakery in Rayansandra to assist putting up electric pole.
The duo reached the spot and Nagaraj as per the instruction climbed up the pole to disconnect the wire and electrocuted .
He fell from the pole and rushed to a near-by private hospital where the doctor declared him as brought dead.
Mallikaujun in his complaint alleged that his brother was not provided with safety measures which results in the electrocution .
Nagaraju was married four years ago and had one-and-half year old daughter .
