India, July 3 -- Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Thursday called the death of a man in a manhole in Mumbai a serious matter and said it amounted to "culpable homicide".

Responding to the matter raised by a member, he asked the state government to place a detailed statement in the House on the incident before the day's proceedings concluded. A man died after being swept into an open manhole amid heavy rains in the city on Thursday afternoon, an official said. The incident occurred in the Chandivali area in the eastern suburbs, where waterlogging had apparently concealed the uncovered manhole.

Fire brigade and civic disaster management teams conducted a search and operation and the man's body was recovered subsequently, he ...