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The crime scene was discovered to be cleaned up earlier than forensics arrived, main the Delhi Police to register a case for tampering of proof and inflicting loss of life by negligence
The incident passed off on September 5, when the person slipped off scaffolding and sustained deadly accidents. (Picture: PTI/File)
The Nationwide Human Rights Fee has taken suo motu cognizance of the loss of life of a person, who fell down from a peak in the course of the ongoing growth work at Delhi airport’s Terminal 3. It has known as for an in depth report back to be submitted in two weeks.
News18 had reported the person’s loss of life on September 25. Sukhdev Sharma, 34, died after falling from a peak whereas working. The crime scene was discovered to be cleaned up earlier than forensics arrived, main the Delhi Police to register a case for tampering of proof and inflicting loss of life by negligence.
The airport operator has refused to remark or reply to proof tampering allegations. The incident passed off on September 5, when Sharma — a resident of Gonda in Uttar Pradesh — slipped off scaffolding and sustained deadly accidents.
“Reportedly, the employee was employed by a contractor for the development work. Reportedly, makes an attempt had been made to suppress the incident by eradicating the bloodstains from the positioning of the incident,” the NHRC mentioned.
The NHRC mentioned if the media report is correct, it raises a severe challenge of human rights violation. Consequently, it issued notices to the chairman of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the deputy commissioner of police, IGI Airport Unit, Delhi, requesting an in depth report inside two weeks, together with the standing of any compensation paid to Sharma’s subsequent of kin.
“A police workforce that reached the spot inspected the world. The incident spot was the apron space the place scaffolding and development materials was discovered. Police additional discovered that blood stains on the world the place the person had fallen appeared to have been washed. Crime and forensics groups had been then known as on spot for an in depth inspection,” acknowledged an FIR, which accessed to News18.
A senior police officer advised News18 {that a} case was registered below Part 106(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for inflicting loss of life by negligence and part 238A for inflicting the disappearance of proof or giving false info to guard an offender.

Anvit Srivastava, Principal Correspondent at CNN-News18, covers crime, safety, policing and society in Delhi. His impactful floor stories have helped him make his mark among the many choose credited journalists i…Learn Extra
Anvit Srivastava, Principal Correspondent at CNN-News18, covers crime, safety, policing and society in Delhi. His impactful floor stories have helped him make his mark among the many choose credited journalists i… Learn Extra
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