Labourer dies of heart attack at ATS project site

Noida: Two days after a labourer was electrocuted to death at an ATS construction site in Greater Noida (west) leading to violent protests, another 40-year-old worker has died of a severe heart attack at the same project site. Meanwhile, two more workers have been arrested in connection with Tuesday’s violence.
The 40-year-old labourer, Sanjay Mandal, who was from West Bengal’s Malda district, fell unconscious at the project site on Wednesday night. He was rushed to Bisrakh community health centre by other labourers, where he was declared dead, police said.
Ecotech III SHO Bhubanesh Kumar said that they received information from the health centre (CHC) and sent the body for post-mortem. Mandal died of cardiogenic shock as a result of myocardial infarction, also known as a severe heart attack, according to his autopsy report.
Police also said on Friday that they had arrested two more labourers in connection with the violence at the site on Tuesday night. The accused have been identified as Abdul Jabbar and Suraj Sheikh, who belong to Bihar’s Purnia district and West Bengal’s Malda district, respectively.
TOI reported on Thursday that scores of labourers went on the rampage at the construction site in Greater Noida (west) on Tuesday after one of their compatriots — Tarun Basu, who was from West Bengal’s Malda district — died of electrocution late on Monday evening.
Post the violence, police had lodged two FIRs against the labourers — one under IPC sections 147 (rioting) and 427 (mischief causing damage) on a complaint from the builder and another under IPC sections 269 and 270 (negligent act likely to spread infection), the Public Property Act and the Epidemic Diseases Act. In the second FIR, the Ecotech III police also invoked IPC sections 188 (disobedience of order promulgated by public servant), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge duties), and 427 and 336 (rash or negligent act endangering human life or personal safety of others).