In a tragic incident, a three-year-old boy drowned in north Delhi's Kirari area  with his family blaming it on the negligence of the administration. The deceased, identified as Arif, was the only brother among his five sisters. His father Ashraf Ali, a rickshaw puller, said his son was playing alone when the incident happened on Saturday evening. Earlier, three minor children died by drowning near Mukundpur in Delhi's north west district.

"He went downstairs where there was water-logging and drowned," he said. The family used to live on the first floor of the house, which had two staircases. One of them is closed and they used the second staircase to come down. Ali was not at home, and the mother was sitting outside the home when Arif, who was alone on the first floor, went downstairs using the second staircase where water was standing.

The whole Kirari area is facing water-logging after heavy rain in Delhi. Lack of water drainage in the colony has become a significant problem, leading to water-logging. The area has witnessed deaths due to water logging in the recent past too. The locals said that even after the deaths, no officials from the authorities concerned or local MLA and councillors came to meet them. The locals said that due to negligence of the administration, the whole area is waterlogged, several houses have become ponds, and the victim's house was one of them where water was logged.

Holding the AAP government responsible for  the death, Delhi BJP head Virendra Sachdeva demanded an immediate compensation of Rs. 25 lakh  to family from Arvind Kejriwal government.

"It is horrifying to know of the death of a child in his own house in the national capital's Janta Enclave in Kirari. What is more shocking in the matter are the reports from Janta Enclave that local authorities at the direction of the AAP MLA Rituraj have forced the father of the child Ashraf to go back to his native place in Bihar," he said.