Panchkula: Person dies due to electric shock while repairing feeder line

Panchkula: A man was killed after being electrocuted at Nagal village here. The deceased was identified as Vinod Kumar.

Vinod’s son, Gurjeet Singh, informed the police that his father, who worked as an electrical works contractor, had gone out for a job on Tuesday and at around 5 pm he received a call from his uncle, saying that his father had been electrocuted and was admitted at Civil Hospital, Sector 6.

Upon reaching the hospital, he was told that his father had been carrying-out repair works of the electricity lines, connecting Barwala and Alipur areas at Naggal village when he was electrocuted.

He alleged that assistant foreman Pawan Kumar had informed them that the supply to all the lines, running through the area, had been snapped for the repair work, but his father was electrocuted because some lines had a supply. The Panchkula police have registered a case against Pawan Kumar under Section 106 of the BNS at the Chandimandir police station.