A migrant labour, resident of Penk Panchayat under Nawadih Block of Bokaro district died in an accident in Malaysia.
Hiralal Mahato (34), who was engaged in transmission line work since 2016, died after falling from a height on June 14. At the time of the accident he was working on a transmission line tower, informed his colleague over phone to the relatives of the deceased.
After Harilal's death, the company officials kept the other labourers who were working there in captivity. They took them in a room and locked the doors so that their (Harilal) relatives could not get information about his death, he said.