Man injured after manja slits his neck
TNN | Feb 26, 2019, 06:28 IST
Representative imageCHENNAI: A man suffered injuries to the neck after he got entangled in a manja thread while returning home on his bike at Kodambakkam on Sunday evening.
Police said Om Ezhilan, 44, fell from his two-wheeler after the manja thread coated with glass slit his neck. He was not wearing a helmet and was on Kodambakkam flyover when the incident happened.
Passers-by took Ezhilan, who teaches at a college, to a government hospital at KK Nagar. Quoting hospital doctors treating him, police said the man was stable.
The Kodambakkam police have registered a case and launched a search for those using manja to fly kites.
In July 2017, the National Green Tribunal had banned the use of 'Chinese' kite strings made of nylon or any synthetic material which is non-biodegradable material. It had directed all state governments to prohibit the manufacture, sale, storage, purchase and use of synthetic manja or nylon threads, and all other synthetic string used to fly kites. The Chennai police had banned the use of manja thread and kite-flying in public in 2007.
Police said Om Ezhilan, 44, fell from his two-wheeler after the manja thread coated with glass slit his neck. He was not wearing a helmet and was on Kodambakkam flyover when the incident happened.
Passers-by took Ezhilan, who teaches at a college, to a government hospital at KK Nagar. Quoting hospital doctors treating him, police said the man was stable.
The Kodambakkam police have registered a case and launched a search for those using manja to fly kites.
In July 2017, the National Green Tribunal had banned the use of 'Chinese' kite strings made of nylon or any synthetic material which is non-biodegradable material. It had directed all state governments to prohibit the manufacture, sale, storage, purchase and use of synthetic manja or nylon threads, and all other synthetic string used to fly kites. The Chennai police had banned the use of manja thread and kite-flying in public in 2007.
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