Family members arrived after the incident at Rampur Stone Crusher
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A 19-year-old youth, Adarsh, died after getting buried in a sandbank in an accident that took place at the Jangal Sai Stone Crusher in Pattikalan village located on the Uttarakhand border under Swar Kotwali Swar. The deceased was a resident of Dabhaura Tanda of ITI police station area of Kashipur, Uttarakhand. On receiving information about his death, his family members reached the spot crying.
While breaking the ruckus, he accused the Dadhiyal police of instigating the situation. The CO who reached the spot somehow pacified them. There is Sai Stone Crusher in Pattikalan area of Swar. Here, Adarsh son Rajesh, resident of village Dabhaura Tanda of ITI Kashipur police station of Udham Singh Nagar, used to work as a laborer during night duty.
It is said that he was performing duty at the stone crusher at around 8 pm on Tuesday night when a lump of sand fell on him and he got buried. The laborers working nearby saw him getting buried and rushed to the spot. The workers somehow removed the sand and took him out. He was in critical condition and breathing.
He immediately took him to the doctor, but by then Adarsh had died. On getting information about the accident, the parents of the deceased and other family members came crying. The family started creating ruckus over the death in the accident. In view of the uproar, apart from Maswasi police, Dadhiyal Chowki police was called.
It is alleged that they had an altercation with the police, but when the villagers arrived, the police came on the backfoot. The family alleges that the police also tried to threaten them by hitting them with sticks. After some time CO Arun Kumar arrived. He calmed down the people who were creating ruckus.
Police took the body into custody and sent it to Rampur for PM. When the body reached home on Wednesday afternoon, a crowd of people gathered. The Kotwali police has not received any complaint in this regard from the family of the deceased. Kotwal Sandeep Tyagi said that the post-mortem of the dead body has been done. Appropriate action will be taken after receiving the PM report and complaint.
Adarsh used to study college during the day and work as a laborer at night.
About Adarsh, the people of his village told that he was from a poor family. He was the only son of his parents and the only younger brother of three sisters. He was a class 11 student of a college located at Lohia Pul village near the village. Villagers said that to support his poverty-stricken family, he used to work as a laborer at a stone crusher at night after returning from college during the day.
Many workers have died on stone crushers
In the last two decades, many workers at stone crushers have died due to sand collapse or by drowning in deep pits created in Kosi due to mining. There are blatant violations of labor laws at stone crushers. There is no provision for helmets etc. for the workers to avoid accidents.
The families belong to the poor class due to which they are unable to compete with the crusher operators. It is alleged that cases of deaths of workers at crushers have often been settled.
