7-year-old boy dies after falling into five feet deep open pit in Bengaluru
Bengaluru (PTI): A seven-year-old boy died after he allegedly fell into an open pit meant for a lift to be installed in an under-construction building at Kadugodi here, police said on Thursday.
Suhas Gowda was playing with his friends near the five feet deep pit, which got filled with rain water, when he suddenly fell into it leading to his drowning on Wednesday.
Local residents pulled him out and rushed him to a hospital where he was declared brought dead, a senior police officer said.
Based on the complaint filed by the victim's mother, a case under section 106 ( Causing death by negligence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was registered against two people, including the building's caretaker, he said.
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Illegally stored gas cylinders seized
Thane (PTI): Authorities have seized illegally stored 1,839 gas cylinders and seven vehicles worth over Rs 67 lakh in the Dombivli MIDC area of Thane district, officials said on Saturday.
A special vigilance team of the Mumbai Rationing Department detected an illegal storage of domestic and commercial LPG cylinders in Phase-2 of Dombivli (East).
Cylinders belonging to multiple gas agencies were found stockpiled in closed vehicles, unauthorised warehouses, and open sheds without mandatory permissions from the Explosives Department, Fire Department, or oil companies, according to an official release.
