Truck driver’s electrocution: Power Department staff booked for negligence

The Ambala police have registered a case after a truck driver was electrocuted and the truck gutted in fire after touching an overhead high-tension cable at a godown in Dukheri village in Ambala Cantonment on Saturday.

The private godown was taken on rent by HAFED to store wheat stock.

A case has been registered under Sections 304-A, 336 and 427 of the IPC at Parao police station on the complaint of a rice mill owner Dixit Gupta against employees of the Power Department for alleged negligence.