Date:25/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/25/stories/2008102550290100.htm

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Guard’s body found on rail track

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE:Shivanna, a security guard of Prestige Shanthiniketan, where a tower partially collapsed on Thursday, was found dead on the railway track near Sadaramangala here in the early hours of Friday. This has given rise to suspicion among the public and police as well.

Shivanna, a resident of Kadugodi, was working at the construction site of Prestige Shanthiniketan for the past couple of months. According to the labourers at the site, Shivanna, who worked on Thursday, went missing in the evening. His mutilated body was found on Friday.

“Around 4.30 p.m., just before the building collapsed, we saw Shivanna at the site. He was interacting with other labourers. But he disappeared suddenly, and we found the body near the railway track this morning. We suspect that he was crushed to death when the building collapsed, and the body was thrown on the railway track,” said K.P. Ranga Reddy, a cement dealer in Kadugodi.

“Shivanna was said to be in the habit of drinking and he might have died due to excess consumption of alcohol,” Assistant Commissioner of Police M. Alwarez told The Hindu.

Labour Ministry B.N. Bachche Gowda has instructed the Kadugodi police to conduct an inquiry into the circumstances in which Shivanna died.