India, Nov. 17 -- The owner of a private agency was booked for allegedly not following safety measures while undertaking the cleaning of a septic tank in Powai in Andheri (east), during which two labourers died of suffocation last Wednesday, police said.

The accused, now deceased, had allegedly lowered two labourers into the tank without equipping them with proper safety equipment, thereby endangering their lives, according to the police.

The Powai police registered the first information report (FIR) against the agency's owner 27-year-old Phulchand Kumar Shaw, who was among the two workers who died of suffocation due to fumes emanating in an underground sewage treatment tank at the Grand Doe building in Hiranandani, Powai on Nov 12, whi...