A seven-year- old student of la Sagesse School, Mhow lost his life in the school swimming pool on Sunday. The police have registered a case of negligence against two teachers.
Anshul Namdev, son of Ashwin Namdev of Durga colony Rau was studying in class 2 of la Sagesse school. According to sources, Anshul Namdev had gone to the school swimming pool during his sports period with other students.
The teachers were present with the students who had come to swim in the pool. After sending around a dozen students for swimming in the pool the teachers got busy in other works and left the students for practice. While learning to swim, Anshul slowly slipped towards the deeper part, struggling for life and disappeared. The teachers and the administrators reportedly present in the school premises were not so much careful about the students who were swimming around in swimming pool.
After the sports period when the teachers counted the students one student was less, so they went to find in the swimming pool where Anshul was found drowned. The school administration took him to Mewara hospital, Kishanganj in Mhow where he was declared dead and from there the school administration took the body to Choithram Hospital Indore. Anshul has two elder sisters and was the only son of his parents.
After the investigation, Mhow police registered a case against two teachers Nadeem Khan and Vishal Waghmare under sections 315,304 (A) and 34 of the IPC. SDM Mhow Pratul Sinha told The Pioneer that the administration would investigate, whether the swimming teachers of the school are competent enough for the job. “We have formed a committee to check all the private schools of Mhow tehsil whether they are following the safety norms for students in schools,” he added.