As many as eleven days after a 23-year-old man died after his head rammed into a railway bridge near Jassian road, while he was sitting on the roof of a tipper truck, the Government Railway Police and the engineering department at the Ludhiana railway station have come at loggerheads.
A senior GRP official said, “We are going to summon a senior official of the engineering department in a day or two since it is a great negligence from their side. If not the height gauge, they should have at least installed the cross bar between the two iron pillars installed near the bridge which could have refrained the trucks from colliding into the bridge while passing through it. The life of the labourer could have been saved.”
Another officer, part of the investigating team, said the incident could not act as a wake-up call for the engineering department as they have so far not installed the height gauge.
