Wife of a contract worker, who was crushed to death in a conveyor belt of CHP in Bokaro thermal Power station on April 24 agreed for a settlement with Lok Nath construction company officials on same date evening after refusing to claim the body and protesting for hours. The family has been promised Rs 4.75 lakh as compensation.
In turn, the victims’ family members agreed to withdraw their police complaint, but the labour department and cops said the probe would continue.
Loknath Construction company Ltd also agreed to provide a job to one member of family during a closed door meeting with the family members, DVC officials and workers’ union representatives at the DVC conference’s office. Of the Rs 5 lakh compensation to deceased family and job has been provided today to deaseaed’s wife in presence of DVC officials while the Company also had paid Rs 25,000 for last rites earlier.
According to reports Praful Mehta, a contract labourer at Lok Nath construction , died of crushed while he was doing some cleaning job in a CHP at A plant, inside the company premises at Bokaro thermal on April 24,2019. At least 5,00 people, including relatives of the deceased, members of several workers’ unions, along with fellow workers and locals, gathered inside the Power plant and refused to claim the body. They demanded that the company and the government compensate them.
Announcing the “settlement” to the protesters, Kamlesh Kumar Chief Engineer and project head of BTPS said wife of the deceased would get jobs and Rs 5 lakh from the company, and in turn, withdraw the FIR.
However, Inspector cum Officer-in Charge Umesh Kumar Thakur of Bokaro thermal police station, said that the investigation into the death was still on. “The postmortem is being conducted and the probe will proceed step by step,” he said.
According to local sources, Praful Mehta was performing morning shift duty on May 24, 2019 and had came to contact with conveyor belt and crushed to death.