Overview
- The boy, identified as Aarav alias Viren Chaudhary, was trapped under a heavy pitch roller while helping prepare the playing surface on the morning of May 30 and died of his injuries.
- Barshi City Police filed a case under Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita — culpable homicide not amounting to murder — naming two coaches and the organising cricket associations in the FIR.
- Investigators say children were instructed by coaches to pull the roller and no adult supervisor was at the site, and police are recording statements from organisers, coaches and witnesses to establish the sequence of events.
- Two coaches named in the FIR are identified in reporting as Vivek Dugam and Akshay Devkar, and authorities say preliminary findings point to failures in safety oversight and use of hazardous ground‑maintenance equipment by minors.
- The case has raised calls for tighter safety rules at youth sports camps and could prompt formal reviews or stricter protocols for who may operate heavy pitch machinery and how camps supervise trainees.