Mangaluru, Aug 24: In a heartbreaking tragedy, a 7-year-old boy died after getting stuck in a lift in a residential apartment in the heart of the city of Mangaluru.
The deceased has been identified as Muhammed Sinan, whose parents hail from Addoor on the outskirts of the city. He was a Class 1 student at Baraka School.
Sinan’s family had returned from a gulf country a few months ago to get him admitted in the school. His father still works abroad, sources said.
The incident took place on Thursday (Aug 23) at around 7 p.m. at Shama Residency Apartment on Vas Lane in the city in the presence of the victim’s mother and siblings.
Sinan’s mother was locking her house door to go out with his three kids when the farmer directly entered the old-fashioned elevator alone.
The door of the elevator immediately got closed and Sinan’s head got stuck in the gap. The lift started moving down and got stuck halfway through. People from the other flats in the apartment rushed to the spot when the boy and his helpless mother began to scream.
Although the door was opened forcefully within a couple of minutes, the injured boy breathed his last without responding to any treatment at a nearby hospital.
A case has been registered at Kadri police station and investigations are on. The incident has put a question mark on maintenance and security arrangements of multi-story apartments mushrooming in the city.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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