A six-year-old granddaughter of former Home Minister Satyadev Katare died after she fell from the fourth floor of the Orchid Palace under Kolar police station on Thursday.
Police said the victim Ashmi Bhardwaj was playing on the fourth floor of her residence. As soon as the victim fell of the apartment she was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was declared brought dead. Victim’s father Anil Kumar Bhardwaj worked in Delhi and at the time of incident he was in Delhi and her mother was working inside the apartment and was not aware that the victim had reached outside the apartment.
The victim was the lone child of the couple. The family lives at the fourth floor of six storey building situated in the Kolar vicinity. Former Home Minister of Madhya Pradesh Satyadev Katare is maternal grandfather of the victim. The locals and neighbours rushed to help the victim and took her to a nearby hospital. Few of the locals who came to rescue the girl said that Ashmi died after she fell from her apartment but was taken to hospital.
Station House Officer of Kolar police station Abdul Rafiqu Khan said that the exact nature of the accident could not be provided but the victim fell accidentally while playing on the fourth floor where the family resides. It’s a six-storey building and the mother was present with her daughter but missed her presence and came to know only when the victim fell accidentally. The police have registered a case under Section 174 of the CrPC and have sent the body for the post mortem. The post mortem report is awaited, he added.