Tirupur: A 24-year-old man was found dead in an open hole drainage system that was being built in Vrb Nagar in Tirupur on Monday.
The deceased has been identified as N boopati Salem, a wall painter, who lives in a rented house in Arivozhi Nagar in Mannarai.
Locals find the body, with legs that stick out from the Manhole hole, on Monday morning.
A team of Tirupur North Police Station shifted him to Tirupur Government Medical College and Hospital for Postmortem.
The police registered the case below part 174 CRPC (unnatural death).
Police believe boopati drunk and stumble into a hole.
“The postmortem report will reveal the true cause of death,” said an officer.
Meanwhile, tensions apply in the area after locals gathered there and urged corporate authorities to speed up drainage work and cover all the holes of the got and holes.
Tight action must be taken against the contractor, said M Thangavel, founder of Vizhuthugal NGOs.
Adequate compensation must be given to the Boopathy family, Jayakrishnan said, residents of Vrb Nagar.
The Civic body will look for reports from project contractors and consultants, and take steps to prevent such incidents, said Kranti Kumar Pati’s corporate commissioner.
“According to the contractor, it’s not an open public road.
The victim might get drunk,” he said.
The corporation will soon conduct a survey of all construction sites, officially more.