Owners booked for bid to cover up electrocution death in hall in Nalasopara | Mumbai News – Times of India

MUMBAI: Fearing that the image of their banquet hall in Nalasopara would be tainted, a couple allegedly hid the death of a worker from electric shock on the premises last week and claimed that the person died in an open space in Vasai.
The Tulinj police on Tuesday registered a case of causing death due to negligence and destroying evidence against Pradeep Singh and his wife Shobhana, who run the Shadidotcom marriage hall in Ambawadi, Nalasopara (E). No arrest has been made.
On September 14 at around 8.30pm, Satyendra Mishra, 42, was rushed to a hospital on the Nalasopara-Vasai Link Road where he was declared dead. The Achole police registered an accidental death case after the accident spot was given as Gokhivare talav in Vasai (East). The body was handed over to the family after autopsy the next day and it was flown to his hometown in Uttar Pradesh soon after.
However, the Tulinj police in Nalasopara (East) got a tip-off that Mishra was electrocuted while working in the marriage hall, and not at Gokhivare as claimed. Assistant inspector Mithun Mhatre of the crime unit said when they visited the Gokhivare talav, two witnesses, including a constable, said no one had sustained an electric shock on September 14.
Investigation revealed that Mishra was carrying out electrical work at the marriage hall for a month. When cops approached Singh, he claimed that the closed circuit television (CCTV) was not working on September 14.
The cops managed to get camera footage from a neighbouring housing society. It showed Mishra being carried to the nearby Mahavir clinic by five to six men. Three of them were tracked down and confirmed that Mishra was electrocuted while fixing wires in the marriage hall. Mishra’s call data record showed he had not travelled to Gokhivare and was in the marriage hall the day he got electrocuted.
MSEB officials have inspected the wires in the marriage hall. Their report is awaited. Earlier, the MSEB issued notices to the marriage hall for faulty meters.
The police said Singh maintains that Mishra was electrocuted at a site in Gokhivare and not in the marriage hall. A notice under section 170 of the CrPC (when an officer in charge of a police station forwards an accused person to a magistrate) has been sent to the couple.