The body of the 10-year-old boy, Samir Mahanand, who fell into a drain near Jubilee Park on Wednesday evening was found floating at the Jayanti Sarovar on Thursday morning.
A team of Jusco’s Health department workers engaged in the search drive fished the boy’s body from the lake. Soon after the workers rescued the body, they handed it over to the aggrieved family members who were following the operation.“As the boy slipped into the manhole the body swept away in the lake last evening itself soon amidst the gushing rain water. We were expecting the body would surface in the lake water this morning and it exactly happened,” said one of the workers engaged in the operation by JUSCO.
However, in protest against the death of the child, the relatives of the victim staged a blockade on the Jubilee Road demanding compensation from the Jusco. The protestors were demanding Rslakh as compensation and a job for the father of the boy in Jusco.
About 200 people staged the blockade on the Jubilee Road adjoining the Jubilee Officers’ Enclave, a colony of Tata Steel officers, where the mishap had taken place last evening. The protestors had declared that they would not allow the police to seize the body unless the compensation issue was not settled.
“The drain was open that led to the death of the child. Jusco, which maintains the civic services, should have made an arrangement during the rainy season considering the area to be populated,” said one the relatives.Traffic movement was affected due to the block. The BJP leaders Saryu Roy and Dinesanand Goswami also arrived at the blockade spot and spoke to the protestors. With the initiative of the BJP leaders and the police, the protestors lifted the road blockade, but moved to the Jusco office in Bistupur, where they staged a dharna, demanding the compensation. The dharna at the Jusco office was continuing till the report was being compiled.
Officer-in-charge, Bistupur police station, Jitendra Kumar confirmed that the body of the mishap victim has been recovered and is now in the possession of the bereaved family members. “We are trying to meet the situation. We will take the body for sending it to the MGM Medical College mortuary once the compensation issue is settled,” said the officer-in-charge.