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Just a time aft a 27-year-old antheral mislaid his beingness aft falling into a roadside pit astatine Muthalakkodam successful Idukki—an incidental that sparked nationalist outrage against the Public Works Department (PWD)—an interior study has shifted the blasted to the Thodupuzha municipality.
On Sunday nighttime astatine 10.45 p.m., Joys Benny, a nonmigratory of Muthalakkodam, was traveling toward Thodupuzha erstwhile helium reportedly mislaid power of his conveyance adjacent a operation site. He fell into a heavy pit beside a culvert and sustained fatal injuries.
Following wide protests, Public Works Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas sought an urgent study from officials. The report, submitted by the PWD Assistant Executive Engineer (Roads) to the Executive Engineer, stated that the section is not liable for the incident.
According to the PWD, the drainage slabs were removed past twelvemonth by the Thodupuzha municipality utilizing world movers to forestall waterlogging. The study alleges that the earth-moving enactment damaged the culvert and led to the enactment of the pit.
“The harm did not hap during immoderate PWD operation activity. Upon noticing the issue, the PWD repeatedly emailed the municipality, urging it to regenerate the slabs and destruct the information to commuters, but the authorities failed to act,” the study said.
While the municipality maintains that the PWD is liable for maintaining the culvert, the section has since installed barricades astatine the Mavinchuvad tract to forestall further casualties. Amid the escalating controversy, the PWD has present begun enactment to screen the pit and implicit the culvert construction.
