In a gruesome incident, a ragpicker boy died after his neck got stuck between a lift and the door. The incident occurred in New Palasia locality here on Saturday morning, when the deceased identified as Abhishek (16), son of Deepak Kardana, had gone to pick up garbage from Surya Apartment.
According to report, Abhishek, after collecting garbage from two flats of the apartment located on its first floor, was waiting for the arrival of lift to go to the fourth floor of the apartment to collect garbage. Out of curiosity he craned inside broken hole of the outer door of the lift to check whether the lift was coming down or not. However, as the luck would have it, his neck got stuck as the lift arrived on the first floor.
The incident came to light when some residents of the apartment waiting for the arrival of the lift on the ground floor observed prolonged delay in arrival of lift. Suspecting something fishy, they went upstairs on the first floor of the apartment and to their utter dismay found the deceased’s neck getting stuck between the door and lift.
They immediately informed about the matter to Palasia police. After arriving at the incident site, Palasia police informed about the matter to the fire brigade and subsequently neck of Abhishek was extricated form the lift. He was immediately rushed to MY hospital where the doctors declared him brought dead.
After receiving news of Abhishek’s death, his family members rushed to the incident site and created ruckus there alleging that it was on account of lapses by the apartment management which led to death of Abhishek. Meanwhile, Palasia police have registered the case and initiated probe into the matter.
Police informed that contract of garbage lifting from Surya apartment had been given to one Ramesh Kardana, grandfather of the deceased who had been living in Mhow. The deceased Abhishek had come to Indore only two months back and was living with grandfather.
He had been coming to Surya apartment for the past 5-6 days to collect garbage. Sources informed that window glass of the lift door on the first floor had been lying broken for the past sometime.