In a bizarre incident, a two-and-a-half-year old boy died of suffocation after remaining inside a locked car near his residence at New Market on Friday afternoon. The police have registered a case under Section 174(CrPC) and started the investigation. The body has been sent for post-mortem.
In the afternoon, the owner of Navrang Saree Store, Deepak Jain, noticed that his son Atishay was missing and considering that he might be at the saree store on the ground floor. later, when the boy was not found at the shop, the family members searched for him and later found him inside the car that was parked at a few yards from the shop. He was immediately rushed to a nearby private hospital, where he was declared dead.
CSP RD Bharadwaj told The Pioneer that Deepak along with his wife and children had gone to the Jain temple and on return all members got off the vehicle. The car keys were kept on the counter of the shop and the boy took them and entered the car without the anybody’s knowledge. Probably, he locked from inside and could not open it, which resulted in his death, Bharadwaj added.
Police said the Jain family had returned from the temple at around 12 noon and they noticed their son missing at around 2 pm. Apparently, the victim died of suffocation.
The victim's father claimed the car was parked outside his shop and the victim picked up the keys and went inside the car and the car got locked.