lift built through 'jugaad' claims life of youth

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In an ugly turn of event, a youth  working in a utensil shop died after his head got stuck in a lift which had been installed in the shop through indigenous `jugaad’ technique. It was only after one-and-half hour of the incident, the body of the deceased was retrieved from the lift. The incident occurred at Ramlaxman Bazar in an utensil shopowned  by  Chandrashekhar Kasera.According to Pandhrinath police, the deceased identified  as Sunil on Sunday was shifting utensils from ground floor of the utensil  shop to the third floor through lift. After sometime when the shop keeper found that Sunil had not come down from third floor, he went up on the third floor through staircase and  to his utter surprise found Sunil’s head stuck in the lift. He immediately  raised an alarm and informed about the matter to the police. By the time, fire brigade personnel reached the incident site, the  youth had already died. It almost took one  and half hours for the fire brigade personnel  to retrieve body of the  youth from the  lift by  lifting it up with the help of a rope from the rooftop of a nearby building. A preliminary probe into the matter revealed that motor  of the lift had burnt. CSP Jayant Rathore talking about the incident said that the  lift which had been installed in the shop was not a product of any branded company, rather it had been installed through `jugaad’ technique. He said a formal inquiry into the matter would be conducted. Meanwhile, police have taken the shop owner into its custody for the mishap. 

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