madurai a textile shop employee fell to death in a pit dug for repairing a drinking water pipeline in rajapalayam on sunday night the deceased pon irulappan was living with his wife sabareeswari in srirangapalayamaccording to sources he was riding his twowheeler on db mills road when he failed to notice a pit dug for repairing a drinking water pipeline of tamirabarani water project since the road was dark no one saw him falling into the 10footdeep pitwhen he did not come home till late night his wife and relatives went searching for him meanwhile some roadusers noticed the body inside the pit they alerted the police who retrieved the body and informed irulappans family the body was sent for postmortem and later handed over to the family