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Kalyan corporator wants homicide case against errant KDMC officials

On Friday, corporator Navin Gawli from ward no 43 of Netivali in Kalyan East demanded that the cops register a case of homicide and negligence against the KDMC officials.

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Five men drowned in this well in Kalyan (East) on Thursday
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After five men drowned in a well due to alleged toxic gases in a well in Kalyan east on Thursday, the local corporator has demanded a homicide case to be registered against the Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation (KDMC) officials. He alleged that the KDMC had left the stormwater drain work incomplete for the past one year. As a result, chemical effluent from neighbouring chemical factories seeped into the well leading to the formation of toxic gases.

On Friday, corporator Navin Gawli from ward no 43 of Netivali in Kalyan East demanded that the cops register a case of homicide and negligence against the KDMC officials. "They are responsible for the death of those five men including two fire brigade officials who died in the well at Chakkinaka in Netivali," Gawli said. He said that the KDMC had left the construction of stormwater drain adjacent to the well incomplete for the past one-and-a-half year.

"Contractor had stopped the work of the drain as KDMC had kept his bill pending. Two months back I met the KDMC engineers asking them to pay the dues and get the work completed," he alleges.

There are three chemical companies just 500 metres away from the well which was owned by Gunwantgiri Goswami and his family at Chakkinaka. Gawli alleged that the chemical effluent from these companies was left in the drain untreated. A year-and-a-half back the KDMC undertook the work of road widening in the area and also made the drain. But left the drain remained incomplete near the temple.

On Friday a team of forensic experts from Kalyan police also visited the spot to collect water samples from the drain and the well. "Prima facie, it looks like there was methane gas formation inside the well as the drain water with alleged chemicals seeped into it. When Kamlesh Yadav went to clean it he was hit by the toxic fumes underneath the muck inside the well," said an official from the forensic team.

On November 1, Gunwantgiri Goswami hired Kamlesh Yadav to clean the well of the muck. Yadav went inside and started screaming. Goswami's son Rahul went to help Yadav and was also got drawn into the swamp. Gunwantgiri went to save his son and also got pulled into it and died. Two KDMC fire brigade officials - Anant Shelar and Pramod Waghchaure went to rescue the trio, but without a safety mask, and also allegedly got pulled into the swamp and died.

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On Thursday, five people including two KDMC fire brigade officials drowned in a well in Kalyan (East) due to alleged toxic gases

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