An employee of the electricity department died while two employees of Monte Carlo company sustained injuries during a maintenance work at Arvind Vihar colony under Baghsewania police station area on Wednesday.
According to the police, on Wednesday afternoon after the power supply was interrupted a complaint was made by the locals with the MPSEB.
On the receipt of the information a team of three employees reached to check and repair the fault.
Initially MPSEB employee Shriram climbed the pole which had technical fault and later Aziz and Rahul climbed the electricity pole.
The three started repairing the fault and were in contact with the power supply line.
When the three were trying to connect the wire the power supply line got current in which the three fell down. The locals who were waiting for the power rushed to their rescue and rushed the victims to Hamidia hospital.
One of injured victims was declared dead. The deceased was identified as Rahul (32) of Bagh Sewania area who works for Monte Carlo company while Shriram and Aziz were later referred to Noble hospital and are undergoing treatment at the hospital.
The negligence from the part of electricity department caused the accident and death of an employee.
Victims were assigned to connect the broken power supply line after strong storm and winds were witnessed on Tuesday due to which several trees fell disrupting power supply line. After the preliminary investigation the body was sent for the post mortem and later handed over to his family members.
The police have registered a case under section 174 of the CrPC and have started further investigation.