<p>Nagendrababu, 26, Ravi, 29 and Kutti Prasad, 35, all residents of Telugu Line in KGF, are the dead, police said.<br /><br />Anandraj, a worker at the Bharat Earth Movers Limited, had given a contract for clearing the septic tank for Rs 10,000 to a group of seven members and made an advance payment of Rs 1,500. The three, who had got into the pit, inhaled the poisonous gas and died on the spot.<br /><br />On seeing the three collapse, the four other workers fled. Later, fire force personnel rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies of the victims from the pit.<br /><br />DSP Devajyoti Ray, Assistant Commissioner R S Peddappaiah and Bangarpet tahsildar S M Mangala visited the spot. But the families of the three didn’t allow the police to shift the bodies for post-mortem. Padma, an activist, insisted that the bodies couldn’t be shifted till the members of some organisations arrived at the spot. <br /><br />The members of the organisations staged a protest stating that Deputy Commissioner Manoj Kumar Meena should announce compensation to the victims’ families. They refused to withdraw the protest even when the DC arrived at the spot around 7:30 pm.</p>
<p>Nagendrababu, 26, Ravi, 29 and Kutti Prasad, 35, all residents of Telugu Line in KGF, are the dead, police said.<br /><br />Anandraj, a worker at the Bharat Earth Movers Limited, had given a contract for clearing the septic tank for Rs 10,000 to a group of seven members and made an advance payment of Rs 1,500. The three, who had got into the pit, inhaled the poisonous gas and died on the spot.<br /><br />On seeing the three collapse, the four other workers fled. Later, fire force personnel rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies of the victims from the pit.<br /><br />DSP Devajyoti Ray, Assistant Commissioner R S Peddappaiah and Bangarpet tahsildar S M Mangala visited the spot. But the families of the three didn’t allow the police to shift the bodies for post-mortem. Padma, an activist, insisted that the bodies couldn’t be shifted till the members of some organisations arrived at the spot. <br /><br />The members of the organisations staged a protest stating that Deputy Commissioner Manoj Kumar Meena should announce compensation to the victims’ families. They refused to withdraw the protest even when the DC arrived at the spot around 7:30 pm.</p>
