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Child death row: Cops file case of death due to negligence

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New Delhi: A case of death due to negligence has been lodged by police on Monday in connection to the tragic death of a toddler in a West Delhi slum cluster demolished by the Railways.

The case stands registered against unknown persons at Punjabi Bagh police station on the basis of statement of her father.

“The case has been registered under Section 304 A (causing death due to negligence) at Punjabi Bagh police station,” said Pushpendra Kumar, DCP (West).

According to police, Anwar, girl’s father, in a statement said a tied bundle of clothes fell down on the girl sleeping on the floor as the family was in a hurry to vacate their shanty. But, the post mortem report of the six-month-old girl said she died due to shock and injuries on chest and head due to impact of blunt force and mentioned about fractures in ribs and head. The report said the toddler died 30 hours before the autopsy indicating she might have died around 9.30 AM.

The Delhi High Court had condemned the Railways for razing the slum cluster and directed the authorities to rehabilitate over 5,000 people rendered homeless as a repercussion of the drive.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met Ministry for Railways Suresh Prabhu and for over 30 minutes, the two discussed about ways to rehabilitate the displaced families on public land.

Though the Railways maintained that the toddler died two hours before the demolition drive began at Shakur Basti on Saturday noon, the parents of the child blamed the authorities for creating a situation leading to her death.

“They might register a case of negligence but the fact is they came all of a sudden. The moment we heard the ominous sound of the bulldozers we started packing to rescue whatever little we could around 10 AM. Little did we realise that something had fallen on her,” father of the girl said.

Taking a strong view on the demolition, a bench of justices S Muralidhar and Vibhu Bakhru said this is a “pathetic act” as “peoples’ lives are involved and we cannot be so casual”.

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