By IANS,
Lucknow : In a freak accident, a woman died inside the civil court’s premises here Friday after slipping through a passage left for the installation of a lift in the building, an official said.
“Gangajali, 45, slipped through the passage from the third floor of the building in Wazirganj area and died,” Lucknow police spokesperson Anand Srivastava told reporters.
The death triggered a series of protests by lawyers, who demanded adequate compensation for Gangajali.
Initially, while carrying out demonstrations, lawyers even took the woman’s body in their possession and refused to give it to the police.
However, after intervention of senior district officials and police, lawyers called off their agitation.
Gangajali, a native of Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district, had gone to meet her son Sarvan Kumar in the court. Kumar was to appear before the court for a hearing in a case.