A three and a half year old boy drowned in a water tank at a building material factory under Bajaria police station area on Wednesday.According to the police, the boy Sonu Rajput was found drowned in a water tank in the afternoon. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead.
Initially the police denied occurrence of any such incident but later provided the details which makes the incident suspicious as they were buying time to cover up the incident.
A complaint was lodged with the police and after preliminary investigation the police have registered a case under section 174 of the CrPC and have sent the body for the post mortem.
Few things like when did the child die, how he reached the water tank and was he killed somewhere else and his body was dumped in the water tank are going to be investigated during further investigation, told the Investigating officer.
Autopsy report is awaited which could confirm the reason of death and after receiving the report it could be confirmed that the child was killed or it was an accidental death apart from the cause of death.
Victim’s father Shankar Rajput works in the factory and the family lives in the nearby shanties.
At the time of the incident victim’s father was not present in the factory.
As the factory produces lattice screen using cement which requires huge amount of water, a water tank was built inside the unit to fulfill the needs of manufacturing. Owner of the workshop Yogesh Sood was not available for comment.