New Delhi: A week after a six-year-old kid was found dead in a water tank at Ryan International School in the national capital, a probe conducted by the SDM has said that the school completely failed in its responsibility to take proper care of the students.
According to the report, the class teacher failed to notice the absence of Devansh Kakrora for hours and could not even figure out the proper time of missing child. The report further said that none of the school authorities responded when Devansh was spotted.
The report said, "Swimming coach, teachers, game instructor, gardeners were available but none responded. In absence of the XI class student, possible, body of the child could not have been rescued. Letting a 11th class student to go inside the pump house or water tank in front of all school authorities, was very serious lapse. His life was at risk. This complete lack of any moral or common sense must not be condoned. Allowing another student to go inside the water tank was very dangerous move allowed by school authorities as according to their statement no one is aware of the actual depth, actual water stored and other necessary details about the tank room."
"Also with open wires hanging around there is a propensity of water electrification which might have proved hazardous to the senior student as well. Most importantly the time that elapsed due to deliberate inaction by the school staff in rescuing Devansh amounts to gross criminal negligence," said the report.
"The reasons as to how the child with his tiffin box went to pump room in place of all the other places on 30/01/2016 when there were other visitors from other branches also, is a matter of thorough investigation. Also it seems incomprehensible that a Class I child can go all the way from his class on his own to a secluded area beneath amphitheater which is dark, dingy, full of electric wires and jumps in a water tank on his own accord. Striking part is all this happens while he remains unspotted.
The report also raises question on a pump operator, Yogesh, who was loitering around in school campus while the pump room is left open also cannot be taken lightly and should be interrogated by police.
This comes even as Devansh's father blamed the police for inaction. He said that the police was looking at the angle of carelessness only, and not sodomy. "We think the child was sodomised. He had cotton on his private parts. This needs CBI enquiry," he said.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police said that the probe was on and the post-mortem report was awaited. Pointing that the primary report is only verbal, the Delhi Police said that the first was of investigation proved negligence on part of school.
The Delhi Police added that it would probe all the angles in the course of investigation.
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