Tea garden worker electrocuted while cutting tree branch

A tea garden worker in Simring tea estate in Darjeeling district was reportedly electrocuted while chopping a tree branch, police sources said today.
Sarkiman Darjee (53), a resident of Simring tea garden was cutting tree branches around 8 am in the morning yesterday when a branch fell on a high tension line killing him on the spot, the sources said.
The Tindharay police retrieved the body that was found stuck to a tree with help from some locals and sent to Kurseong sub-divisional hospital from where it was handed over to the family later in the evening.
Following the incident, Mahanadi-Tindharay constituency GTA member Prabha Chettri led a group of estate residents and demonstrated outside the WBSEDCL office in Kurseong.

Chetri demanded that a family member of the deceased must be given a job as the sole earner of the family is no more.
She said the Power department officials have assured of placing the demand to their higher-ups in Kolkata.
Chetri also assured all possible aid to the deceased's family from the GTA while handing out Rs 5,000 in cash for conducting the last rites of Darjee who has left behind his wife and four children.