Metal-coated manjha (thread) for kite proved fatal for three people on Independence Day on Monday. In the first incident, three-year-old girl died after her throat was slit by a manjha when she was looking out of open sunroof of the car in north-west Delhi’s Rani Bagh area on Monday evening.
According to a senior police official, the deceased has been identified as Sanchi Goyal, who used to study in a play school near her house.
On Monday evening around 6:15 pm after watching a movie in Naraina, Sanchi was returning home with her parents -- Alok Goyal and his wife Neha Goyal.
"Near her home, Sanchi kept insisting on putting her head out of their Honda City roof window and feeling the breeze. After sometime, her parents agreed and Sanchi stood on her mother’s lap and look out of the window. Meanwhile, her father increased the speed of the car so that she could enjoy the wind," said the police official.
What happened next has changed life of the Goyals’. A manjha got stuck in Sanchi’s throat. Before she could say anything, the thread tore into her throat and she started bleeding profusely.
"Sanchi’s mother understood the unfortunate incident, when drops of blood fall on her face. Alok immediately stopped the car and saw their daughter bleeding profusely. The panicked parents cried for help and took Shanshi kto nearby hosptial," said the official.
However, doctors in the hospital failed to rescue her and declared her dead.
Meanwhile, a call was made to the police and a team rushed to the spot.
The Goyals live in Deepali Enclave in Rani Bagh and their daughter was the ‘sunshine’ of their family. After the incident, the family refused wish to speak at all on the incident.
However, Ganesh, a Goyal’s neighbour, said, "Shanshi was very playful and always wore a smile on her face. She was the sunshine in the family."
Meanwhile, police are trying to ascertain whether the girl was entangled by ‘Chinese manjha’ which has sharper lead coating.
A case of negligence was registered at the Rani Bagh Police station.
"We have registered a case under Section 304A (death due to negligence) and started investigating the matter. We have also sent the body for post-mortem. We are trying to find out if it was a ‘Chinese manjha’ that took the girl’s life," said Deputy Commissioner of Police, north-west district, Vijay Singh.
In another similar incident, a four-year-old boy identified as Hari, died after his throat was slit by a manjha after he stuck his head out from the sunroof of a car in West Delhi’s Tilak Nagar on Monday evening. The incident happened around 7:45 pm when Hari who was in the car with his parents and sister and was coming back from Janakpuri to Tilak Nagar.
In another incident, a Delhi Police sub-inspector also suffered injuries on his throat after he got injured by a kite thread in East Delhi’s Anand Vihar area on Monday.
A senior police official said the Sub-inspector has been identified as (SI) Manoj Kumar, who sustained injuries as a kite string grazed his neck when he was returning to Anand Vihar police station after Independence Day duty Monday evening.
"He was riding a motorcycle at the time of incident which took place near Cross River Mall. Manoj didn’t sustain severe injuries and no case has been registered in connection with the incident, said DCP (East) Rishi Pal.
In west Delhi’s Vikaspuri area, a 22-year-old man, died after he fell down from his bike and hurt his dead as a kite manjha got stuck around his neck in West Delhi’s Pashchim Vihar on Monday.
"The deceased has been identified as Zafar Khan, who lived in Nihal Vihar. He was coming back to his house from Dwarka where his sister lives, when a manjha got stuck around his neck and he got a cut on the neck due to which he got disbalanced and fell off from his bike hurting his head," said Joint Commissioner of Police, South-western range, Deependra Pathak.