NRI Colony death: Spatial Gardenia apartment president, watchman left manhole open; booked

Hyderabad: A case has been registered against two persons in the death of 4-year-old Mithun who fell into an open canal flooded with rainwater and drowned. The case details were altered to be registered under Section 304A (causing death by negligence) against Spatial Gardenia Apartment president Krishnayya and watchman Bharat.

Update: In the death of 4-year-old Mithun in NRI colony, Pragathi Nagar, a case has been registered against Spatial Gardenia Apartment President Krishnayya and Watchman Bharat. Case has been altered under section 304A--causing death by negligence. #HyderabadRains https://t.co/NqkquQwpST

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The incident occurred in Pragath Nagar, NRI Colony in Bachupally, Hyderabad on September 5 at around 11 am. The streets in the NRI colony were underwater, similar to many parts of Hyderabad which had witnessed severe water-logging due to heavy rains.

CCTV footage showed the boy, Mithun, following an elderly person on a road filled with rainwater. He did not realise that a manhole in his path was open and stepped into it. The open manhole was overflowing with water from heavy rains. The boy was washed away in the canal, and his body was later found near the Nizampet Rajiv Gruhakalpa area.

“A case has been altered and cases were booked against the watchman and president of the apartment. They were negligent in opening the canal cap and leaving it without closing,” said Bachupally CI Suman Kumar.