JAIPUR: A 16-year-old teenager was crushed to death in an accident at a flour mill under the Nahargarh police station area in the city on Sunday evening.
He got stuck inside the grinder while putting wheat into it from a sack. Police have registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and under other sections of the
Juvenile Justice Act
against the owner of the mill for engaging children for work.
According to police, the incident took place at 5.30pm when the teenager, identified as Amit Das, was putting wheat from sacks into the grinder. “Preliminary investigation suggested that his hands first got stuck in the grinder, dragging his body head first into it. His body upto the waist had got stuck inside the grinder. His neck was broken and fingers were found chopped,” said circle inspector Mukesh Khardia, Nahargarh police station.
A team of senior police officers and a rescue team of the civil defence rushed to the spot. “His body was badly stuck inside the grinder and had to be pulled out with the help of metal cutters,” he said.
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