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Man buried alive under garbage by municipal workers in Bareilly, FIR filed for negligence

According to a TOI report, a 45-year-old man was allegedly buried alive under a heap of garbage after municipal workers from the Bareilly Municipal Corporation dumped a load of drain silt from a trolley, unaware he was sleeping under a roadside tree. The victim, Sunil Kumar Prajapati , a vegetable vendor who supported his family in Bareilly, died on the spot in what his family described as a horrifying and painful death. According to Circle Officer (City-III) Pankaj Srivastava, the incident occurred in the Baradari area of Bareilly. 'The body was sent for a postmortem, and the autopsy confirmed the death was unnatural. It appears to be a case of negligence,' he told TOI. Play Video Pause Skip Backward Skip Forward Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration 0:00 Loaded : 0% 0:00 Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 1x Playback Rate Chapters Chapters Descriptions descriptions off , selected Captions captions settings , opens captions settings dialog captions off , selected Audio Track default , selected Picture-in-Picture Fullscreen This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Text Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Caption Area Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Drop shadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Brought to you by Undo Following an initial investigation on Friday, an FIR was filed under BNS Section 106 (causing death by negligence) at the Baradari police station against sanitation contractor Nayeem Shastri . "We are proceeding with legal action," the officer added. In his complaint, Sunil's father, Girvar Singh Prajapati, stated that his son had been sleeping under a tree opposite a cemetery on Thursday when a municipal trolley dumped waste directly on him. 'The workers left without checking. That location wasn't even designated for dumping silt or garbage,' he said. 'Later, we were devastated to find him buried under the waste. We rushed him to the hospital, but he had already died.' Live Events A senior police official confirmed, as reported by TOI, that CCTV footage is being reviewed to determine whether the dumping was an act of negligence or done deliberately.