Hyderabad: Two men were killed after allegedly choking toxic smoke on Tuesday night after they entered the water channel to remove mud manually in the Padmavathi colony in Sahebnagar below the LB Nagar GHMC limit.
While one body is taken at night, another body is swept away in drain water.
GHMC officials blame the contractor to take jobs at night even though it is clearly instructions against it and without the knowledge of officials.
There is also a bunch of manual gastric cleaning.
The workers were identified as Shiva (25), whose body was found, and Ananthaiah (45), both of Chintal Basti in Saidabad.
Both were not GHMC staff and involved by B Yellaiah contractors, also from the same area.
According to officials, the workers used the ‘bucket cleaning’ system and Shiva fell from the stairs while entering a channel of about 10 feet.
Ananthaiah followed him because there was no response.
The police suspect that both gave toxic smoke and Ananthaiah’s body was swept away in the overflowing sewer.
GHMC officials said that the contractor was told to clean the mud in the sewer after the residents of Gandhi Nagar, Akhilandeswari Nagar, Snehamai Nagar and Padmavathi Colony complained about overflowing due to unrelenting rain.
“This is a unfortunate incident.
The work should not be taken manually.
Even though there are clear standing instructions for cleaning the naughty hole at night, the contractor ignores it.
The work was carried out without GHMC officials informed,” said Head of the GHMC (maintenance) Head of Engineers (Maintenance) M Devanand .
He said detailed reports would be handed over to the GHMC Commissioner Lokesh Kumar and the action would be taken against the contractor.
Police Vanasthalipuram has registered a case against the GHMC contractor under the IPC section 304 (II) (murder guilty that does not amount to murder), SC & ST (POA) acts and prohibits work as a manual scavenger and rehabilitation law, 2013, based on complaints by members Families of two workers.
LB Nagar DCP Sunpreet Singh said that they had not arrested the defendant.
The police were also deployed in place to prevent clashes between political party workers.
At night, 60 Congress workers including Malreddy Ranga Reddy and his brother Malreddy Ram Reddy was brought to preventive prisoners because they had protested in place against the allegations of GHMC officials and for Local followers of Local MLA D Sudheer Reddy.