India, Sept. 22 -- Manager of a construction company was arrested and the owners summoned on Sunday in connection with a sewer death in northwest Delhi's Ashok Vihar last week, a Delhi Police officer said, adding that the company had not provided any safety gear to the workers for cleaning the sewer.

A 40-year-old man had died while three others were hospitalised as they fell while cleaning a sewer outside an apartment building on Tuesday.

The victims were working for the private company and on Tuesday, around 11pm, they fell into the sewer while working. A delivery executive on the way spotted them and tried to help, but all the victims had collapsed due to toxic fumes inside the sewer.

The delivery executive informed the police and t...