Boy, 4, electrocuted in Bengaluru convention hall
Bengaluru: A four-year-old boy was electrocuted at a convention hall in Basaveshwara Nagar, west Bengaluru, Wednesday night.
The victim, Shivam MP, was the younger son of Pradeep Kumar and Deepa, a couple from Kempegowda Nagar.
The family had come to the convention hall to attend the marriage reception of Pradeep's relative when the tragedy occurred, police said.
According to Deepa, she found Shivam lying supine near the air cooler placed by the staircase at the hall. "Shocked on seeing him lying motionless, I ran towards him and held him by the shoulder. Then, electric shocks passed through me and I screamed. Someone disconnected the air cooler and pulled us away.
We immediately shifted Shivam to a nearby private hospital, but the doctors declared him dead on arrival," Deepa stated in her complaint to police.
The wires of the air cooler were exposed, and Shivam, who was playing with other children near it, accidentally stepped on the wire where it was exposed, police said. Deepa has blamed the electrician, manager, and owner of the hall for the tragedy and sought legal action against them.
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During investigation, police found three more children had been playing in the vicinity at the time. "Fortunately, none of those three stepped on the wire," an investigating officer said. "We booked the electrician, manager, and owner of the convention hall under BNS Section 106 (causing death due to negligence). They were summoned to the station and arrested. They have been released on station bail."
Death at home
In another incident, a 13-year-old girl was electrocuted inside her Hanchipura residence in Nelamangala Rural Friday evening. M Priyadarshini, a class 8 student, was electrocuted when she switched on the washing machine, investigators revealed.
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