New Delhi, Sep 20: An 18-month-old girl died of starvation and her older sister is in a critical condition after they got “accidentally” locked up for almost three days in a farmhouse garage in West Delhi’s Nihal Vihar.
The deceased’s sister, a three-year-old child, is badly starved and in a critical condition but is expected to survive, said Dependra Pathak, Joint CP (South-Western Range).
The officer said preliminary investigation pointed towards the sisters getting locked up accidentally but a decision on registering an FIR would be taken after a further probe.
The girls lived with their parents in a neighbouring farmhouse where they are employed. The area is dotted with several such farmhouses.
The girls wandered over to the neighbouring farmhouse last Friday afternoon. The police said prima facie it appears no one spotted them walking into a garage.
The man in-charge of the garage has told the police that he did not know anyone was inside the garage when he downed the shutters on Friday evening.
“Saturday and Sunday being holidays, the man apparently did not turn up for work because of which the girls remained locked inside through the three days,” said Mr. Pathak.
The girls’ parents, meanwhile, had searched the entire area for their children before approaching the police for registering a missing complaint. However, no one in the search parties guessed that the sisters could be in the garage.
It was only when the garage in-charge opened the shutters on Monday afternoon did the incident come to light.
The man heard moans emanating from one corner of the garage. When he went to the corner, he noticed the three-year-old girl lying half unconscious and her sister in her arms.
He immediately raised an alarm after which the sisters were rushed to a hospital where the younger one was declared dead. The elder girl has been admitted to the intensive care unit.
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