In connection with the death of three workers in Max Super Specialty Hospital, Dehradun, police team formed by Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police Kewal Khurana started its investigation on Wednesday. Workers’ bodies have been sent for post mortem examination, said Rajpur Police Station in-charge MB Srivastava. The labourers who died were identified at Rakesh Kumar, resident of Brahmpuri, Akshay Kumar, resident of Chamanpuri, and the supervisor Manmohan, resident of Balawala.
SP City Navneet Singh said that after receiving complaint from the aggrieved families, an FIR under section 304 of IPC had been lodged against the hospital managing director, engineer and hospital contractor in Rajpur police station. Police have started an impartial investigation. According to him, MD of the Max Hospital, plant engineer and the contractor who was absconding from the scene after the incident have started cooperating with the police.
Moreover, the family members of Rakesh and Akshay met the district police officer and held the hospital management responsible for negligence in the incident, which had led to the death of three persons. They alleged that the hospital management neither made any attempt to rescue the labourers on time, nor did they inform their families about the accident. The bereaved families have also demanded compensation from the hospital management.