Body of a 17-year-old youth who drowned on Saturday was fished out from Kerwa Dam on Sunday morning; the deceased along with two friends had gone for picnic at Kerwa Dam and drowned while taking bath in the afternoon.
Police said that the deceased, identified as Sunny Soni a Class VIII student of Vivekanand School, had gone to Kerwa Dam along with his friends Nitin Singh and Aditya Giri and while taking bath Sunny slipped and drowned the two tried but failed to save him.
Initially the two did not report the incident to their family and later when Sunny failed to return home late in the evening his parents started to search for him and got information that he was seen with Aditya and when parents reached Aditya’s house to get whereabouts of Sunny they got the information about the incident and Ratibad police were informed.
On the receipt of the information, BMC divers were informed and search operation to fish out the body was started but failed to find the body in the night and operation was stalled in the night and later on Sunday morning the search operation was resumed and body was found.
After the preliminary investigation the body was sent for the post mortem. The police have registered a case under section 174 of the CrPC and have started further investigation.
Father of the deceased works as a salesman with a private company and was not aware of the incident.
Nitin and Aditya are students of Jawahar School. Nitin appeared for Class X and Aditya is a student of Class VII.