Magisterial probe order into Tindong project mishap

Deputy Commissioner Kinnaur Abid Hussain Sadiq ordered a magisterial inquiry into the tragic accident in Tindong project near Moorang tehsil of Kinnaur district.  Additional District Magistrate Pooh Ashwani Kumar would conduct a Magisterial inquiry into the incident and submit the inquiry report to the DC within a week.  Deputy Commissioner said that an FIR has also been registered regarding the matter to find the negligence being adopted to endangered life of workers. It is noteworthy that in Moorang tehsil of the district, at 5:45 am today, 5 persons were trapped inside the tunnel due to the rupture of the ropeway of the pressure shaft in the Tindong project, to be removed from the tunnel by the district administration and the company for immediate relief work.  was started. The Deputy Commissioner said that after hard work by the NDRF, Home Guard and ITBP personnel, five persons trapped in the tunnel were rescued, in which three persons were found injured and two persons were found dead. He said that the two dead in the accident have been identified as 48 years old Chamanlal son Lekhram village Mundkar Tehsil Bhoranj district Hamirpur and 23 year old Xavier Suren son Kristaniyar Suren Siskari Toli, Seligotu, district Gugla state Jharkhand.  He said that the three injured persons have been identified as Polus Guria, son Kiran Guria, Ronne Dugang Dhiri district, Khunti state, Jharkhand, Vikas Kumar, son of Rajesh Patel, police station, Harpur, ward number 8, village, Nayak Tola, post, Harpur, East Champaran, state, Bihar and Vishal Kumar, son of Narayan Patel, village Gamharia.  Ward No 1 Post Office Hardia has been established as East Champaran State Bihar.  He said that victims were working for Himalayan Construction Private Limited Company.