Mumbai: Labour contractor booked after labourer gets electrocuted at Kandivali

MUMBAI: An FIR has been registered against a labour contractor after a labourer was electrocuted while working at a chawl in Kandivali.
Police said the contractor, Guddu Oza, did not provide the labourers with any safety gear.
The deceased, Mufatzal Mandal, was working as a mason with Oza for the past three months.
On September 4, Mandal and his co-workers were engaged in plastering work at a chawl.
"Wires were hanging haphazardly at a height of about five height outside the room where we worked. An electric board within current passing through it was placed on a plastic drum inside the room," one of the labourers later told the police. No helmet, gloves or plastic shoes were provided to the labourers.
It was raining and around 4.30pm, Mandal entered the room with a ladder that was wet.
"The ladder came into contact with the board and he suffered an electric shock. He was stuck to the ladder. One of our co-workers, Sabir, who tried to rush to his aid also suffered a shock and was thrown off from the impact. I rushed to switch off the mains. By then, Mandal had lost consciousness," said Jamal Mulla, one of the labourers and the complainant in the case.
The group of labourers rushed Mandal to a civic hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. Samir went to see a private doctor on his own. The Kandivali police was informed and a case of negligence was lodged.