By Admin 
Sajja Murthy (aged about 52 years), an engineer cum contractor from Andhra Pradesh, died in Patna last Wednesday (November 26, 2025). The incident took place at Rainbow Ground adjacent to Pataliputra Sports Complex in Kankarbagh. On Wednesday morning around 3.30-4.00 am, the iron gate located at the rear of Rainbow Maidan fell, due to which Sajja Murthy got hit and died on the spot.
When people came to know about the incident in the morning, the police arrived. The police sent the engineer’s body for post-mortem. His family members were informed. In this whole matter, Ravi Shankar Singh, the owner of the house in front of the incident site, said, “In the morning we saw the gate falling. The contractor was crushed to death in it.” He also told that the incident has been captured in the CCTV camera installed in his house.
Sajja Murthy was living in the sports complex itself.
Actually, construction work is going on in Rainbow Maidan. To get this done, engineer cum contractor Sajja Murthy, a resident of Andhra Pradesh, was staying in the boys hostel of Sports Complex for about a month. A truck loaded with ballast had arrived early on Wednesday. After unloading, the driver drove away with the vehicle. After this Sajja Murthy locked the gate. As soon as he started leaving after locking it, a part of the gate fell on him, crushing him to death. Although the truck had left from there. No one saw this incident. It is believed that if someone had noticed on time, perhaps life could have been saved.
In this case, Kankarbagh Police Station Head said that when the local people went out for a walk in the morning, they saw that a person was buried under the iron gate. They informed. When the police reached the spot, the person was dead. The police received information about this at around eight in the morning. It is being told that there was already a defect in the iron gate. It was not installed properly.
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