<p>An ordnance factory worker is struggling for life after a friend played a practical joke on him. He filled compressed air into the worker's intestine through his rectum by a high-power compressor, police said Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The incident took place Thursday in Muradnagar area of Ghaziabad but was reported Friday night.<br /><br />Police said Rajendra Singh alias Pintu (30) was a contractual worker at the state-owned ordnance factory in Murad Nagar.<br /><br />While on a break from work Thursday afternoon, he and his co-workers were sitting near the factory's compressor house.<br /><br />As a joke, a friend and co-worker - identified as Ankit - placed the air pipe of the compressor into Pintu's rectum and opened the valve through which the high-pressure air ballooned his intestine, police said.<br /><br />Pintu complained of serious pain in his stomach, and some other co-workers rushed him to a hospital, where doctors provided him first aid and referred him to the Meerut Medical College and Hospital.<br /><br />Doctors said his condition was critical, and his intestine may have ruptured.<br /><br />"If intestine is found ruptured, it should be repaired immediately, otherwise the infection would spread in the entire body which would be difficult to stop at a later stage," said Rajiv Tyagi, a doctor at the Meerut hospital.<br /><br />A criminal case for voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means has been registered against the accused co-worker.</p>
<p>An ordnance factory worker is struggling for life after a friend played a practical joke on him. He filled compressed air into the worker's intestine through his rectum by a high-power compressor, police said Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The incident took place Thursday in Muradnagar area of Ghaziabad but was reported Friday night.<br /><br />Police said Rajendra Singh alias Pintu (30) was a contractual worker at the state-owned ordnance factory in Murad Nagar.<br /><br />While on a break from work Thursday afternoon, he and his co-workers were sitting near the factory's compressor house.<br /><br />As a joke, a friend and co-worker - identified as Ankit - placed the air pipe of the compressor into Pintu's rectum and opened the valve through which the high-pressure air ballooned his intestine, police said.<br /><br />Pintu complained of serious pain in his stomach, and some other co-workers rushed him to a hospital, where doctors provided him first aid and referred him to the Meerut Medical College and Hospital.<br /><br />Doctors said his condition was critical, and his intestine may have ruptured.<br /><br />"If intestine is found ruptured, it should be repaired immediately, otherwise the infection would spread in the entire body which would be difficult to stop at a later stage," said Rajiv Tyagi, a doctor at the Meerut hospital.<br /><br />A criminal case for voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means has been registered against the accused co-worker.</p>