A four-year-old boy is feared to have died after he fell into an open sewer manhole at Dass Garden Park near Nangli Vihar in outer Delhi’s Ranhola on Tuesday afternoon, after which a multi-agency search and rescue operation was launched.
What the police said
Police said teams from the DFS, the NDRF, and the local administration also arrived at the scene and launched a search-and-rescue operation. “My son went near the sewer and fell into a manhole that was open and died. The rescue teams are telling us that they will find my son.
Deputy commissioner of police (DCP) for outer areas, Vikram Singh, said that the Ranhola police station received a call on Tuesday at about 3.21pm regarding an incident in which a four-year-old boy fell into a sewer while playing. The police said a case of causing death by negligence has been registered under Section 106 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) at the Ranhola police station, and an investigation has been initiated to ascertain the exact sequence of events leading to the incident and fix responsibility.
The operation is still ongoing to find and rescue the child or retrieve his body, with teams from the Delhi Fire Services, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), and the local administration involved, according to the police. We are poor people; what can we say now,” he said. A team from the police station reached the scene near Kheri Baba Pul, located along the “Ganda Nala” (drain).
