Migrant workers dies in Roorkee relief camp, inquiry ordered

A magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the death of a migrant worker at a relief camp in Uttarakhand's Roorkee, an official said on Sunday.

The victim's family in Aligarh alleged that Netrapal (42) died as he had stopped eating because he was given barely boiled rice which he was unable to eat.

AICC secretary Vivek Bansal, in a letter to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, called for urgent financial assistance to the man's family.

The victim's son Ajay told PTI that his father worked at a hairdressing salon in Rishikesh and had come to Uttar Pradesh to meet his family on Holi. He left for Rishikesh again on March 18.

Ajay said when the lockdown was enforced nationwide, Netrapal became jobless and decided to walk back to Aligarh on March 28.

After a day's walk, he decided to take shelter in a village near Roorkee where the pradhan provided him with a meal.

But a little later police took him away to a relief camp in Roorkee, Ajay said.

He added that his father last ..