A 29-year-old contract worker, Kaushik Barik was killed while plucking mangoes from a tree inside Tata Steel company premises under Bistupur police station area early on Friday morning. A resident of Jugsalai the victim used to work in the contract firm, SGB Scaffolding Pvt ltd inside the steel company, had sustained grievous head injury while plucking the mango.
A team of police officials recovered the body and sent it to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem, a group of fellow contract workers reached the post-mortem office and created ruckus. They alleged it to be a case of murder. The agitated contract workers had also manhandled with a policeman. "The workers had tried to prevent the police to get post-mortem done, but later the workers were convinced," said the officer-in-charge, Bistupur police station, Jitendra Kumar.
Kumar said that the man was plucking mango by climbing on the tree located near the godown of SGB Scaffolding Pvt ltd, the contract firm where the victim would work. But he fell down and was fatally injured. One of the workers told the newsmen that no one had seen Kaushik plucking mango and falling down from the tree. "We suspect that the victim might have been killed by someone. We wanted to take back the body for demanding compensation from the company," said the worker.