CHENNAI: A guest worker from Chennai who attempted to cycle to his home at Lachipeta in Malkangiri district of Odisha was found dead at Kavarapettai near Gummidipoondi on the Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh border on Tuesday allegedly due to exhaustion caused by hunger.
Some passers-by spotted him lying dead frothing at his nose and mouth on a sidewalk in the town. A team from the Arambakkam police station registered a case under Section 174 (unnatural death) of CrPC and sent the body to Ponneri government hospital for autopsy.
According to police, the man, identified as Ram Biswas, 36, was employed as a construction worker with a private firm at Velachery in the city for the past two years.
Biswas and four other fellow workers from Odisha have been pleading with the agent, who got them the job, and the construction firm owners to send them back to their native place.
Quoting a security guard at the construction site, police said all the five workers left Velachery on separate bicycles on Monday night with their belongings. Kavarapettai is 60km away from Biswas’s work site.
According to Lawrence, one of the agents, though many of the guest workers had left the state through trains and buses, Biswas and a few others stayed back as they didn’t have the money to pay for their travel. Food became a problem for Biswas and the group as some fellow workers who could cook had also left.
After watching videos of workers cycling back to their homes across the country on social media, the five decided to pedal their way to their homes, Lawrence said.
TN police are now trying to trace the other four workers and have sought the help of their counterparts in Andhra Pradesh in locating them.
Tiruvallur police suspect that Biswas may have fallen behind due to hunger and thirst and may have collapsed on the roadside. His friends may have noticed him missing late and may have proceeded with their ride after failing to trace him. Biswas cycle was also missing.
Some passers-by spotted him lying dead frothing at his nose and mouth on a sidewalk in the town. A team from the Arambakkam police station registered a case under Section 174 (unnatural death) of CrPC and sent the body to Ponneri government hospital for autopsy.
According to police, the man, identified as Ram Biswas, 36, was employed as a construction worker with a private firm at Velachery in the city for the past two years.
Biswas and four other fellow workers from Odisha have been pleading with the agent, who got them the job, and the construction firm owners to send them back to their native place.
Quoting a security guard at the construction site, police said all the five workers left Velachery on separate bicycles on Monday night with their belongings. Kavarapettai is 60km away from Biswas’s work site.
According to Lawrence, one of the agents, though many of the guest workers had left the state through trains and buses, Biswas and a few others stayed back as they didn’t have the money to pay for their travel. Food became a problem for Biswas and the group as some fellow workers who could cook had also left.
After watching videos of workers cycling back to their homes across the country on social media, the five decided to pedal their way to their homes, Lawrence said.
TN police are now trying to trace the other four workers and have sought the help of their counterparts in Andhra Pradesh in locating them.
Tiruvallur police suspect that Biswas may have fallen behind due to hunger and thirst and may have collapsed on the roadside. His friends may have noticed him missing late and may have proceeded with their ride after failing to trace him. Biswas cycle was also missing.
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