A Correspondent
JOYSAGAR: Satyan Bauri (34), a tea garden laborer of Jabaka Tea Estate of Sonari, died due to electrocution on Wednesday.
Satyan was an inhabitant of the Khamlung labor basti of Jabaka TE. As per information, Satyan was electrocuted due to the alleged negligence of the Sonari APDCL workers and tea garden authority. The Borhat (Sonari) regional unit of the ATTSA staged a protest on Wednesday in front of the Borhat APDCL office.
ATTSA leaders alleged that a 440-volt electric wire was hanging in the village and the villagers had made several appeals to the authority concerned to take necessary action. But the local APDCL office allegedly did not take any steps. Earlier, two tea other garden laborers also died following sudden electrocution a month ago, informed ATTSA leaders.