India, July 14 -- A 29-year-old labourer fell off a 45-feet high concrete pillar and died on Saturday morning while working on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in southeast Delhi, police said. The contractor firm's director and site engineer have been booked for negligence.

Deputy commissioner of police (southeast) Hemant Tiwari said the worker, Sachin Kumar, was from Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr and a resident of northwest Delhi's Sultanpuri. He was employed with a construction company engaged in the infrastructure project and was shifting a hydraulic jack used for structural adjustments on the pillar at around 9.30am on Saturday.

The incident allegedly happened near a construction site where a segment of the highway's elevated structure is ...