India, May 26 -- A 26-year-old man was critically injured after one of his legs was maimed during a garbage lifting operation involving an earthmover at Sector 12 Chowk in Gurugram on Monday, police said.

Police said the victim was allegedly in an inebriated condition and was sleeping amid a garbage heap, due to which neither the earthmover operator nor sanitation workers noticed him during the cleaning operation.

Investigators said the incident took place between 10am and 10.30am when an earthmover operator, accompanied by sanitation workers, arrived at the chowk to lift daily garbage from the site. According to police, the operator pressed the heavy metal bucket of the machine against the ground to scoop up the garbage when the man ca...