Pramesh S Jain
A 31-year-old labourer died due to suffocation while cleaning a manhole in Akshay Nagar in RMC Yard police station limits on Sunday .
The deceased has been identified as Puttaswamy who has been hired along with another labourer identified as Antony to cleaned the clogged manhole .
The duo got into the manhole and inhales toxic gases and collapsed due to exhaustion .
The others pulled them out and taken to the hospital where Puttaswamy succumbed later while Antony is recovering.
The RMC Yard police have registered a case against three people under Manual scavenging Act,who hired the victims for the clean up work .
It is a private building constructions which connected to the manhole.The owner of the house engaged the duo offering daily wage and not provided any safety gear , the officer,said .
