Forty-year-old S. Babu, an electrician, fell into a ditch, dug across Kamarajar Salai in R.A. Puram, for draining stagnant rainwater last Friday.
On Tuesday, when he died at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, the family was devastated. Babu has two children — elder son Udaya, who is studying class VIII and the younger one Surya in class III. His wife Karpagambal is unemployed.
Residents stage road-roko
Alleging negligence, some of the local residents staged a road-roko. “The ditch was dug some ten days ago to drain water and it was not barricaded properly. In fact, there was a big crater by the side of the road and many pedestrians were falling into it as it was covered with rainwater,” added a resident of a nearby apartment complex.
The relatives want the government to help the family.
