Bengaluru: In a shocking incident, a two-and-half-year-old girl drowned in an open storm water drain at Doddabommasandra, near Vidyaranyapura in Bengaluru on Tuesday morning.
The police have identified the deceased as Tanushree. She was the only child of Subbanna and Lakshmi hailing from Mundaragi in Yadgir district.
The police said Sabanna works as a construction labourer and Lakshmi is a domestic help. The couple lived in a rented house in Raghadendra Mutt locality in Doddabommasandra.
According to the police, they would drop Tanushree at her aunt’s house, which was barely 100 yards away from their home while on their way to work. Lakshmi would return around 10.30 a.m. to take Tanushree back to their house.
On Tuesday at 9.30 a.m., Tanushree ventured out of her aunt’s house to play. It was only when Lakshmi came to pick her up that they realised she was missing. They searched for Tanushree and found her in the drain. Her uncle Mallikarjuna jumped into the drain, picked her up and took her to the nearest hospital where she was declared brought dead.
The police said that though the drain — three feet deep and three feet wide — passed through a residential locality, it had not been fenced. Based on a complaint, the Vidyaranyapura police have registered a case against the officials concerned charging them for causing death due to negligence.
Mayor R. Sampath Raj visited the spot and ordered suspension of two engineers holding them directly responsible for not covering the drain
