The night watchman of Gandhi zoo in Gwalior was found dead on Sunday morning. The body of Chatrapal Singh Baghel was found by employees of the zoo when they came to the office. Police suspected that he might died because of cardiac-arrest in the night and fell on the burning heater that was place near his chair.
The employees of the zoo immediately informed the senior officials of the zoo and police. On receipt of information they also reached the spot and opened the room and found the dead body of Chatrapal Singh. The police sent the body for postmortem. In the initial enquiry, it came to light that the zoo management has given the night duty to Chatrapal continuously for 5 days.
On receipt of information the corporator Narendra Singh and villagers of Thatipur reached the office. Meanwhile, the villagers urged the authorities to appoint Sunil, son of the deceased in the zoo before the lifting the dead body. The zoo in-charge Dr SK Mittal said that Chatrapal was a permanent employee of the zoo, so there would be no difficulty in providing government job on compassionate grounds to one of his family members. The MCG Commissioner has given this assurance. The action has been started to settle the pay and other claims in the office.