A 28-year-old worker was found hanging at a plant of the National Thermal Power Corp (NTPC) in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Friday. His family claimed he had been murdered.
Dani Ram Gupta was found hanging from the stairs of a water tank in the coal handling unit of the NTPC’s LARA Super Thermal Power Plant in Pusaur on Thursday night, Raigarh Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjay Mahadeva said.
Gupta, from Kodpali area, was a contractual worker at the plant for the last three years.
A case of accidental death has been registered. Gupta’s family members claimed he was behaving normally till 5 pm on Thursday and alleged that he was murdered and then hanged.