Mumbai: Feeling sick after muck poured on me, claims contractor's employee

Days after he was forced to sit on a waterlogged road and garbage was thrown on him at the behest of a Shiv Sena MLA in Mumbai for allegedly not cleaning a drain properly the victim who is working as a supervisor for a civic contractor on Tuesday claimed to have contracted an infection and developed difficulty in breathing after the incidentJustifying his act Chandivali MLA Dilip Lande had said the contractor was supposed to clean the nullah in Sanjay Nagar area in Kurla properly which he had not done leading to waterlogging during rainsWATCH Mumbai Shiv Sena MLA from Chandivali Dilip Lande makes a contractor sit on water logged road amp asks workers to dump garbage on him after a road was waterlogged due to improper drainage cleaning He says I did this as the contractor didnt do his job properly 126 pictwittercomXjhACTC6PImdash ANI ANI June 13 2021After the video of Saturdays incident went viral Lande said he wanted the contractor to realise his responsibility However it turned out that the man who was made to sit on the waterlogged road was Narpat Kumar 26 a temporary supervisor working with a civic contractorKumar told PTI that he had filed a written complaint about the incident with the Ghatkopar police station I have contracted some kind of infection I am also facing difficulty in breathing after the incident he claimedAccording to Kumar he was admitted in a private hospital in suburban Borivli on Saturday night and discharged on Monday nightI am going back to my native place in UP today My family was shocked when they learnt about the incident after watching the video and they havent slept for the past two days Therefore I am going to see them he saidAlso Read Shiv Sena MLA makes contractor sit on road asks workers to dump garbage on himKumar said he started working with the contractor just a month ago after returning from his village in Uttar Pradesh but the last weeks incident left him shocked He claimed Lande and his supporters had also threatened himIn his complaint with the police Kumar stated the concerned drain was cleaned just eight days before the incident but somebody again dumped garbage into itIn the video Lande can be heard telling the man later identified as Kumar to sit down in the water and asked some civic workers present there to throw garbage on himWhy did your boss not come Sit there and call your boss I have been calling your boss for the past one hour and he did not turn up There has been waterlogging here for the past eight days Do the cleaning work now Sit here until your boss comesrdquo Lande had saidSpeaking to reporters Lande later said The contractor was supposed to clean Sanjay Nagar nullah which he has not done properly When the area started getting waterlogged during the rain I called him but he did not come When some Shiv Sainiks and I started working towards clearing the drain and the road the contractor arrivedThe MLAs act invited criticism from Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council Pravin Darekar who demanded that the Maharashtra Chief Minister clarify if such behaviour was justifiedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever