Bravery exhibited by a Class VIII student saved her father but failed to rescue her mother when her parents sustained electric shock at their Vikas Nagar residence under Govindpura police station area on Friday.
The incident was reported early in the morning and the girl attempted to save her parents by using wooden stick.
According to the police, Rashmi Chouhan along with her husband Dharmendra and daughter Nidhi live in the house. On Friday morning, when Rashmi went to spread clothes for drying, on the string made of iron wire, she sustained electric shock. As soon as Dharmendra came to know, he rushed for Rashmi’s rescue, but he too got stuck with the electric shock.
listening to the shrieks of both, their only daughter Nidhi reached there and with the help of wooden stick tried to save them. In the process, Dharmendra survived, but Rashmi succumbed.
The victims were rushed to City hospital in Gautam Nagar where Rashmi was declared dead while Dharmendra regained conscious after some time and is reportedly stable.
In the initial investigation the police found that at around 6 am the deceased was putting washed clothes over the wire for drying during which she stuck to the iron wire which came into contact with live wire and her husband who rushed to her rescue also got stuck but their daughter showed alertness and hit them with a wooden stick which rescued them and later Rishi was declared dead.
Nidhi is a student of class VIII of Anand Marg School.
Investigating Officer Satendra Kushwaha said that the alertness shown by the daughter of the deceased save her father but unfortunately her mother died.
Deceased’s husband Dharmendra Chouhan refused for the post mortem and the other family members and relatives were also firm for not performing of autopsy but later after the police officials intervened and discussed with the family members they agreed after which the body was sent for the post mortem, he added.
After the preliminary investigation, the body was sent for the post-mortem and police have registered a case under section 174 of the CrPC and have started further investigation.