Bhubaneswar: The State government has announced a compensation of Rs 4 lakh to the kin of deceased 15-year-old Jyoti Prakash Behera, who died after falling into an open drain amid heavy rainfall in Bhubaneswar.
Jyotirmaya Behera, a class 10 student, fell into the drain near Lane 7 in Shatabdi Nagar Bank Colony in Siripur on Sunday. He was on the way to attend a tuition class on his bicycle when the incident happened.
However, his body was recovered from a bush near a drain at Panchasakha Nagar here this morning.
