Bengaluru: After a granite bird bath crushed six-year-old K Vikram to death on Monday in Lalabaugh Botanical Garden, his parents have decided to lodge a complaint against the horticulture department for their negligence.
Kumar, father of Vikram told media that the department was taking his son’s death too casually and that he is filing a complaint just to ensure that no more children meet such a tragedy in future.
Alleging that the department has fabricated the story of his son’s death, Kumar questioned how Vikram could have fallen under the bird bath if he was sitting on it when the mishap occurred.
Kumar said that Vikram was standing below the bird bath, leaning to pillar when the pillar fell killing the young boy, a theory that the department has rejected.
On Monday, Vikram had been to the garden with his cousins and aunt when the mishap occurred. Soon after the incident, the grieving family members kept pleading for help, but the onlooker only resorted to clicking pictures and videographing the gory incident. A watchman nearby ran to the family’s help. An ambulance that came to the spot too refused to rush the boy to the hospital, alleged the family members. Kumar said that he will also be filing a complaint against the ambulance driver.
Meanwhile, even the noble thought of Vikram’s parents to donate his organs too met failure as the hospital authorities said that his vital organs could not be harvested as he was brought dead. Reportedly only his cornea could be harvested.
The police have registered a case of unnatural death.
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