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Dubai: Two Indian expatriates a safety officer and a civil engineer have appealed for mercy or help to pay Dh200,000 in diya (blood money) to the family of a worker who died after an accidental fall at a Dubai worksite in 2017.
Shaney Haider, 45, from Uttar Pradesh and B. Bharathiraja, 33, from Tamil Nadu, said the incident took place on January 22 in 2017. Despite getting a pardon from the family of the deceased, Utpal Mallick from West Bengal, following an out-of-court settlement, the duo could still not get the pardon legally validated, the duo told Gulf News.
What happened
Mallick, then 42, had fallen while constructing the terrace of a two-storey villa in Dubai, said Haider. “Just a few days earlier, the construction above one floor had been given a clean chit. Mallick fell from a height of about six metres to a height of three metres, but unfortunately he fell on the scaffolding rods and was severely injured. That is what led to his death,” he claimed.