Gurugram News: In a tragic incident, a two-year-old child died after falling into a manhole in the sector 37 area of Gurugram, with the authorities alleging that they had left it open. The incident occurred in Sihi village on Wednesday evening when the boy identified as Pradeep Kumar was playing near the tea stall of his father Bhagat Kumar, SHO Satyawan said.
“My son was playing near my tea stall and fell into the manhole. When we started searching for him, he was found lying in the sewer,” Kumar said in his complaint as quoted by news agency PTI. “The police team was called, who pulled my son out from the sewer and rushed to a hospital where the doctors declared him dead,” he further added.
The SHO said that the boy's father claimed that his son died due to the negligence of the authorities. “My son died due to negligence of the department concerned,” he said in the complaint.
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According to SHO Satyawan, Kumar, a native of Nepal, has been living in the village with his family for the past two years and runs a tea stall. Following his complaint, an FIR was registered under the Indian Penal Code Section 283 (danger or obstruction in a public way or line of navigating), and 304A (causing death by negligence) against unknown persons at the Sector 37 police station on Thursday, the SHO said.