Budgam, May 09: A 40-year-old man died after receiving an electric shock while cutting fodder at the land for their domestic animals in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Thursday.
Bashir Ahmad Dar, a local from the Chewdara village of the Beerwah Tehsil, told Rising Kashmir that the power department provided a new HT line from the Beerwah receiving station to many villages of Beerwah through the Chewdara main road to the Ohangam village road from Ohangam to Meerpora. He said the old HT line that is coming into the agricultural fields side of the Chewdara side is only 4–5 feet tall.
“When Imtiyaz Ahmad Dar was carrying grass for domestic animals upon his shoulders and was returning towards his home, his fodder touched the HT Line, which resulted in his death on the spot,” Bashir said.
Imtiyaz was taken to the Sub District Hospital Beerwah where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
Muhammad Maqbool Dar, former Sarpanch of the Chewdara Panchayat Halqa A, said the new HT Line is almost complete and that it was the responsibility and duty of the PDD to close the old HT line that passed through the agricultural fields of Chewdara village.
This line is becoming a major threat to the lives of the farmers who are doing various kinds of agricultural activities in their fields on a daily basis, Maqbool said.
He said the power department must take necessary steps and close the old HT line from Chewdara to Ohangam village for the safety of the people.
Station House Officer (SHO) from Police Station Beerwah said a case has been registered under relevant sections of law.