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A 14-year-old boy, who was reported missing 3 days ago, was recovered dormant wrong a pipeline enclosure of the Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB), connected Sunday.
The deceased has been identified arsenic Preetham, lad of Rajnikanth, a housekeeping unit astatine a backstage steadfast and autochthonal of Chamarajanagar district. The household had been residing successful a rented location astatine Tataguni colony successful Bengaluru South.
Preetham was studying successful people 9. On January 28, helium and his sister went to their aunt’s location for breakfast, portion his parents had gone to work. After breakfast, Preetham returned portion his sister stayed back, and helium had gone missing since then.
The parents returned successful the evening and aft launching a search, they filed a missing idiosyncratic ailment astatine the Kaggalipura Police Station. The constabulary and section residents had been conducting a hunt cognition since then.
On Sunday morning, portion the BWSSB unit were carrying retired regular work, the boy’s assemblage was recovered wrong an 8-foot-deep unfastened sump enclosure connected to a h2o pipeline successful the area.
Preliminary investigations suggested that the sump had been near uncovered for respective days, and the lad mightiness person accidentally fallen into it.
The constabulary retrieved the assemblage and shifted it to a infirmary for post-mortem examination. The household has filed a complaint, alleging that the negligence of the BWSSB workers led to the incident.
The BWSSB has formed a three-member committee led by its engineer-in-chief B.S. Dalayat to probe the case.
BWSSB Chairman V. Ram Prasath Manohar said, “The lad dying by falling into a scour valve enclosure of Cauvery V Stage adjacent Tataguni was tragic.”
“The enquiry committee volition sojourn the spot, instrumentality everything into relationship and springiness a study by February 5. Based connected the report, stringent enactment volition beryllium taken against whoever was astatine fault,” helium said.
The members of the committee are A. Rajashekhar, main engineer, Cauvery Water, and Mahesh K.N., main engineer, projects.
Sources successful the BWSSB said that a scour valve enclosure is similar a pit with a valve wrong to power the travel of water. These pits should ideally beryllium covered. But the enclosure that the lad fell successful was allegedly not covered.
