Couple electrocuted after falling in waterlogged Ahmedabad street: Two civic body officials, three contractors held for negligence
The police investigation found that two streetlights had been removed from the Mutton Gali road but the electrical wiring had not been properly secured, causing the current to spread into the water
The arrest of all five accused persons was announced by Narol Inspector PC Desai on Saturday (Archive)
Five days after a couple died of electrocution, after falling into a waterlogged street that had electricity running through it due to contact with open wiring, police on Saturday arrested two officials of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and three contractors for alleged negligence.
Rajan (32) and Ankita Singal (27) lost their lives on September 8 after they tripped into the waterlogged street in Narol area after their two-wheeler stumbled upon a pothole.
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The arrest of all five accused persons was announced by Narol Inspector PC Desai on Saturday.
The FIR against the accused, based on a complaint by Rajan’s mother Hetal Harjeevan Singal, was filed at Narol police station on Friday night.
The FIR stated that on Monday, Rajan and Ankita had gone to deliver a tiffin to Hetal’s husband Harjeevan, who was admitted to LG Hospital in Maninagar with a lung infection. They had returned from the hospital around 10 pm, had dropped Hetal off at her brother’s home in Isanpur, and were on their way to their own home in Narol when they fell in the waterlogged Mutton Gali. The water had a current running through it due to power leakage, it was alleged.
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The FIR further stated that when the paramedics arrived in the ambulance, both were already dead. Their post mortem was conducted at VS Hospital and final rites performed on September 9.
The police investigation found that two streetlights had been removed from the Mutton Gali road but the electrical wiring had not been properly secured, causing the current to spread into the water.
The police booked contractors Saiyyed Zaheer Hassan, Nayan Kapadia, and Ajay Dinesh Parmar, along with Technical Supervisor Jignesh Gamit and Assistant Engineer Pankaj Machhar under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 106(1) (causing death by negligence) and 54 (abettor present), and placed them under arrest.
The arrest of all five accused persons was announced by Narol Inspector PC Desai on Saturday (Archive) 
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