NEW DELHI: A seven-year-old boy drowned in a pond fashioned by rainwater in a DDA park in Rohini Sector 20 on Saturday. This incident occurred on the identical day two youngsters drowned in Rohini’s Prem Nagar.
The boy was recognized as Tarun, who lived along with his relations in Aman Vihar and was a scholar of Class IV. Police mentioned at 6:30 pm, they obtained a PCR name concerning the drowning of a kid within the park.”Once we reached the spot, we discovered that the kid had already been moved to hospital, the place the physician pronounced him useless on arrival,” an officer mentioned.
Jaswant Singh, a relative of the deceased, mentioned the household was unaware of when the boy ventured out of the home and went to the park. “We’re unsure whether or not he inadvertently slipped whereas enjoying or had gone to wash within the pond,” he mentioned. He added that at 8 pm, on receiving a telephone name from the authorities, they rushed to the hospital.
“It was an utter show of apathy and negligence that resulted within the tragic lack of the younger boy’s life. The absence of a safety guard and the dearth of satisfactory security measures to warning people concerning the presence of the pond had been obtrusive oversights,” he mentioned.
The boy is survived by his father, who’s employed at a garment store in a purchasing centre, and his mom, a housewife. A video of the park revealed that it was submerged in water, with even the concrete benches inundated.
The physique of the boy was preserved within the hospital for postmortem. “Vital authorized motion has been taken into the matter,” a senior officer mentioned.
In an announcement, DDA mentioned the incident occurred at Chhat Ghat contained in the district park, adjoining Aman Vihar resettlement colony in Rohini. “This can be a 12-acre park and the chhat ghat space is round 3000 sq m with a depth of round 3.5 ft. The water physique is fenced via a grill throughout and residents have been warned to not enter that space. Yesterday, regardless of warning from the guard, 7 to eight youngsters had been enjoying within the space the place water had collected because of heavy rain.” It added {that a} guard got here to the rescue of the kid who was drowning and took him to hospital the place he was declared useless.
