Overview
- Late Sunday night a motorcyclist riding home in the Pilkhuwa area of Hapur lost control and fell into a deep excavation dug for a PWD road project, according to multiple local reports.
- Locals pulled the injured rider from the pit and took him to hospital but doctors later declared him dead and his body was sent for postmortem.
- Villagers and the victim’s family say the excavation had no barricades, warning signs, reflective markers or lighting and they blame those missing safety measures for the accident.
- Pilkhuwa police registered an FIR under Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which covers culpable homicide not amounting to murder, naming concerned PWD officials and the contractor and opening a criminal probe.
- Authorities say the PWD has sought a report and will form an inquiry committee; the case has raised fresh questions about enforcement of basic site safety after a similar pit-fall death in Delhi.